A Leicestershire company pleaded guilty of breaching Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 after allowing workers to work on a 7m high building without adequate safety protection to prevent injuries from falling at Loughborough Magistrates’ Court recently.
Cobham Advanced Composites employed Streamline Guttering and Cladding to install new guttering. Streamline Guttering and Cladding was fined at an earlier hearing where they pleaded guilty to breaching the Work At Height Regulations 2005. Cobham Advanced Composites were fined and ordered to pay costs.
Workers could access the roof they were working on by a mobile tower at the front of the building. But there was no safety equipment in place to stop workers falling from the back of the building where work was taking place. There was clear, foreseeable risk of a fall which would have caused serious injury. It is not just the contractor’s responsibility, but also the responsibility of the contracting company to ensure workers are safe.
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