Health and safety breaches cost Chelford GBP 10,500
October 2, 2008
A Lancashire firm has been fined £6,000 after breaching health and safety regulations at its construction site.
Chelford Properties will also pay costs of £4,500 after failing to respond to improvement notices issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
These were submitted after a HSE inspection in the beginning of 2007 found there were inadequate provisions made to prevent unauthorised access to a site, which was also found not to have been designed to allow the safe movement of people and traffic.
Chelford had previously received four improvement notices for issues arising at its other sites.
HSE inspector Alasdair Green claims the firm repeatedly put its own workforce and the general public at risk.
Stating the company had not taken health and safety issues seriously, he says none of the problems the improvement notices highlighted would cost much money to correct.
"Construction bosses have a duty of care to ensure that their sites are operated in a safe way and to prevent members of the public from gaining access," Mr Green says.
In related news, a company was recently fined £50,000 after an employee was killed by a forklift truck which overturned while being manoeuvred into position.
Chelford Properties will also pay costs of £4,500 after failing to respond to improvement notices issued by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
These were submitted after a HSE inspection in the beginning of 2007 found there were inadequate provisions made to prevent unauthorised access to a site, which was also found not to have been designed to allow the safe movement of people and traffic.
Chelford had previously received four improvement notices for issues arising at its other sites.
HSE inspector Alasdair Green claims the firm repeatedly put its own workforce and the general public at risk.
Stating the company had not taken health and safety issues seriously, he says none of the problems the improvement notices highlighted would cost much money to correct.
"Construction bosses have a duty of care to ensure that their sites are operated in a safe way and to prevent members of the public from gaining access," Mr Green says.
In related news, a company was recently fined £50,000 after an employee was killed by a forklift truck which overturned while being manoeuvred into position.
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