Company fined pounds 35,000 over father's death; HEALTH AND SAFETY: BUSINESS TODAY.The Health and Safety Executive (HSE HSE House HSE Health and Safety Executive HSE Helsinki School of Economics HSE Hamilton Southeastern (High School) HSE Health, Safety & Environment HSE Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) ) has called on companies to ensure they undertake appropriate risk assessments and protect their employees through proper training, following the death of a young father from Hertfordshire. SF (UK) Ltd, trading as British Gas, of Millstream mill·stream n. The rapid stream of water flowing in a millrace. millstream Noun a stream of water used to turn a millwheel , Maidenhead Maidenhead, city (1991 pop. 59,809), Windsor and Maidenhead, S central England, on the Thames River. It is a residential town with brewing and milling industries as well as a resort. The 13th-century stone bridge was rebuilt in the 1770s. Road in Windsor, was fined pounds 35,000 with pounds 65,000 costs at St Albans Crown Court yesterday. On 7 June 2005, SF (UK) Ltd engineer Ricky Cronin was attending a residential call-out in Cuffley, near Waltham Cross. While repairing a washing machine motor fault, Mr Cronin made contact with live parts after removing the back panel and was electrocuted as the power was left on. Mr Cronin was in his fifth week of employment with the company, although he did have previous experience. As part of the induction programme he was accompanied by a more experienced colleague. The HSE investigation found that the induction training provided by SF (UK) Ltd was insufficient, and there was a lack of adequate risk assessments for the task.. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion