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.

A hydraulics company, with locations throughout the UK, has been fined after an employee became trapped in a machine that he was working on at a customer’s premises in Plymouth.  David Lawrence, a 63-year-old engineer, was undertaking fault finding on a laser cutting machine for Pearson Hydraulics Ltd, on 26 July 2023, when the cutting bed of the machine dropped and trapped both of his legs. After spending five weeks in hospital, Mr Lawrence had to have his right leg amputated above the knee. Despite extensive surgery to save his left leg, Mr Lawrence faces the possibility of having it amputated in the future.

A renovation company in South Wales has been sentenced after defying enforcement notices from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).  Inspectors say Greenlife Property Developments Ltd failed to heed their warnings about the dangers posed to workers by a two-and-a-half metre deep excavation of the entire back garden of a house in Pit Place, Cwmbach, Aberdare.