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Posts Tagged ‘Employee Risk Assessment’
A foundry in Stoke has been fined £8,000 plus £4,798 in costs after a worker fell into an unfenced pit housing a mould containing molten metal at 900°C. The 28 year old worker suffered severe burns to his left arm and upper legs. The man who wishes not to be named, needed skin grafts on his injured limbs which are still scarred, following the incident on the 5th May 2010.
During the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecution, Fenton Magistrates’ Court heard the worker is still undergoing physiotherapy for restricted movement in his arm, hand and fingers, and is so traumatised by the experience he has not been able to return to any work at the foundry.
On the 30th April 2010, the worker on a construction site refurbishing buildings climbed a step ladder to remove a cable. The worker assumed that the cable was dead and so attempted to remove the cable using a hammer and chisel. After the second blow, the worker has no recollection other than waking on the floor with a colleague trying to extinguish flames from the top half of his body. The worker received serious 30 – 35% burns to his body which required skin grafts.
The accident victim was a sub contractor of Pineview Interiors Ltd of Havering, London.
At the time of the incident, a 415v 3-phase temporary electrical supply had been provided to the site, and on that morning the worker explained to his supervisor that the electrical cable needed to be removed to allow plasterboard to be installed. HSE investigation revealed that Pineview undertook what HSE deemed to be ‘very limited’ enquiries as to whether this cable was in fact still live, and its workers proceeded on the false assumption that the cable being described must have been an old redundant cables from the pre-existing installation.
Epwin were looking to deliver a group specific manual handling training course as part of their induction programme entitled “One Foot and Move It”. Ideally the company wanted to:
- Reach employees across 30 geographically dispersed locations with a consistent training message regarding good manual handling practises and techniques
- Implement a training programme that would be relevant and applicable for their particular business on budget and within a tight time frame
- Identify the most appropriate format for delivering this solution so that if would effective in different working environments
- Test understanding of their content
- Generate and maintain training records and reports
The solution
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A 24 year old worker employed by Duco International Ltd died whilst operating machinery at the the company’s premises on Slough Trading Estate as he worked on a night shift on the 15th of January 2008.
No risk assessment had been carried out on the machine he was operating at the time of the accident and the employee had not received enough training on operating the machine.
The employee was operating an automatic inspection machine, checking for flaws on rolls of rubber and cloth printing blanket when the un-witnessed accident happened. Another worker heard a “muffled cry” and discovered the deceased badly injured and trapped beneath a blanket and a roller.
The employee died of his injuries at the scene before he could be moved from the machine. It was reported that the official in charge of Health and Safety at the factory had resigned a month earlier because of concerns that an accident was going to happen.
The accident was only possible because Duco had not risk assessed the machine which had not been checked after a modification had been made. Its lack of guarding permitted access to the dangerous parts and employee information, instruction and training on the machine were inadequate.
A 32 year old worker from Polan had his arm broken in two places plus extensive soft tissue damage whilst working at a mushroom farm in Somerset. The worker was using the machine for the first time while working for Drimbawn (UK) Ltd, part of the Monaghan Mushrooms Group, when the incident occurred on 18 November 2010.
The worker was using a machine which washes the nets used to cover mushroom fields at the farm. The nets were fed into the machine which then washed them – but the clamping mechanism which held them in place as they went in was ineffective.
A former hotel manager has been fined a total of £5000 including costs for failing to comply with an enforcement notice issued by Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Authority.
The Authority had served an enforcement notice on the former hotel manager whilst he was employed at Kedleston Country House Hotel near Derby, after concerns with the means of escape at the building. These included inadequate emergency lighting and fire doors that were deemed inadequate. The hotel was given two extensions to complete the work, but fire safety at the hotel remained inadequate.
The fine imposed by Derbyshire Magistrates Court was £3000 with £2000 costs.
The HSE is to be asked by a Coroner to look at the requirement for longer jump leads or alternative equipment to enable breakdown and recovery personnel to operate more safely.
The recommendations come following the inquest into the death in 2008 of a 58 year old breakdown industry worker who was killed on the road near Ringwood, Hampshire, when a passing motorist hit the vehicle he was working on.
He was positioned between his breakdown vehicle and the vehicle he was working on in order to apply jump leads and he could not place his vehicle in the preferred position some way behind the car he was working on. A verdict of unlawful killing was arrived at.
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SIG Trading Limited of Sheffield have admitted breaching S.2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and have been fined £36,000 after a forklift truck driver twice ran over the leg of a colleague. The operator driver was unaware that 2 other employees were in the warehouse and as he advanced his truck a few metres he became aware of a colleague shouting and indicating to him to reverse. Having just run over another colleague’s leg he then reversed the truck over his leg again. The accident victim now lives with constant pain.
The forklift truck had its load, a large metal coil, supported on its forks which were raised and this restricted the operator’s view. No arrangements were established to separate pedestrians from vehicles operated by 2 companies which shared that part of the site. No employee training on transport issues had been carried out and no high-visibility garments for use in the warehouse were issued.
A worker employed by Lowmac Alloys Ltd recycling centre in Ayr, was crushed between two skips causing severe injuries.
On the 26th August 2009 the employee was standing between two skips when an 18 tonne shovel loader pushed one of the skips towards the other, crushing the employee. The loader driver did not hear the employees screams for help at first, but when he did, it took him two attempts to lift the skip out of the way.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that traffic management had not been properly assessed at the site in Ayr and the company had not maintained a safe system of work as there were no barriers or road markings to separate pedestrian workers from shovel loaders or other workers on site. The shovel loaders were also found to be too big for the area they were working in. Drivers had never been trained or given health and safety instruction.
There was also only one portable toilet on site that was unhygienic and had no running water. As the toilet was so filthy, workers told the HSE that the preferred to urinate in the yard. This was why the employee was between the skips.