A paddleboard business owner has been jailed for 10 years and six months for gross negligence manslaughter following the deaths of four people in 2021.  Nerys Lloyd, 39, from Aberavon, who was the owner and sole director of Salty Dog Co Ltd, was charged with the gross negligence manslaughter of Paul O’Dwyer, 42, Andrea Powell, 41, Morgan Rogers, 24, and Nicola Wheatley, 40, following their tragic deaths following the incident in Haverfordwest Town Weir on 30 October 2021.

A road haulage company in Nuneaton has been fined £90,000 after a metal heat exchanger fell from its lorry killing a cyclist.  A Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV), operated by JW Morley Transport Ltd, was driving down College Street, Nuneaton, on 18 June 2021 carrying four heat exchangers weighing over 10,000kg, when as it went round a bend, the load shifted in the vehicle causing one of the straps securing the load to snap.

A social housing provider has been fined £140,000 following a prosecution by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  Stonewater Limited employed two men as estate assistants who worked at various sites near Tanyard Farm in Coventry.

A waste company has been fined £250,000 after a man was run over on his first day at work. The 40-year-old new employee was picking waste at a site in Oldham when a moving shovel loader ran into him from behind.

A company and its director have been fined a combined £18,000 after a man was injured during excavation work in West Sussex.  JHE Construction and Jordan Hay-Ellis pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety laws following the incident on 23 February 2023.

A BRADFORD builder has avoided jail after an asylum seeker earning £50 for a day’s work fell to his death.  Sarabjit Singh, 44, of Glenlee Road, Lidget Green, was found guilty of breaching Health and Safety regulations at Leeds Magistrates’ Court on March 5.    He was sentenced to six months imprisonment, suspended for 12 months.

A London property developer has been fined £63,000 plus costs after Britain’s workplace regulator found multiple failures at a construction site in Dalston.  Nofax Enterprises Limited was investigated by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) following four visits to its site on Dalston Lane over a 13 month period between 2020 and 2021. The company was overseeing the construction of a four storey building on the site, containing nine flats and large basement to house a youth club.

A company and its operations manager have both been fined after a man fell to his death through a roof at its site in Dudley.  Maciej Rozanski, who was 42, had been working to remove a redundant steel cleaning machine from the company’s Sovereign Works site on Deepdale Lane, on 29 June 2018. However, during the work, Mr Rozanski stepped onto a fragile roof and fell more than 20 feet to the floor below. He suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.

The owners of a Camberwell bakery have been prosecuted for breaching health and safety regulations.  The case, brought by Southwark council against Spice N Nice, was heard at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on March 3, culminating in the defendants, Mark Scott and Dezrene Judith Clarke, pleading guilty to breaches to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.

As part of its attempts to reduce the regulatory burden on UK business, the government has announced a review of older prescriptive health & safety legislation, specifically the Lifting Operations & Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998 and the Pressure Systems Safety Regulations 2000.  The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) plans a consultation process to identify and remove what might be considered to be unnecessary regulatory burdens and identify potential changes to legislation to reflect technological advances and reliability of work equipment.