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SAFETY HARNESS TRAINING - This course covers the safe and correct use of Harnesses together with details of the relevent regulations and working at height procedures etc. The candidates will also learn how to inspect and record findings with regard to current legislation and HSE Guidelines. 1 Day. ***** If candidates have had Working at Height Training, the HARNESS TRAINING only is 1/2 day, otherwise 1 Day
++ RECENT ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY ++
Read details of some recent HSE prosecutions and enforcement action in the
construction sector and find sources of relevant advice.
Work at height
9 March 2010 - A Merseyside builder has been fined £1,500 and ordered to pay costs
of £1000 after he and another man were spotted working on a pub roof in St Helens
without safety equipment.
HSE prosecuted Charles Molloy from Molloy Building Contractors after an inspector
spotted the men on the roof of the Black Horse Hotel on Park Road on 18 June 2009.
St Helens Magistrates' Court heard that Mr Molloy, 64, had been hired to replace the
ridge tiles on the top of the pub roof. But neither he nor the worker he employed
wore harnesses, put up scaffolding or took any other safety precautions.
Mr Molloy also ignored advice he was given about the way he was working by an
Environmental Health Officer from St Helens Council, a few days before HSE's visit.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-nw-056molley.htm?ebul=cons/mar10&cr=10
17 March 2010 - A homebuilding firm has been fined after a 17-year-old apprentice
joiner fell from the first floor of a house he was working on.
The trainee fell almost nine feet to a concrete floor from the first floor of the
new build home through an unguarded stairwell injuring his head and legs.
Stonehaven Sheriff Court heard that apart from a plywood sheet placed over the
stairwell entrance there was no edge protection or guards in place to prevent
employees from falling through the open stairwell.
Scotia Homes Ltd pled guilty to breaching regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height
Regulations 2005 and was fined £4,000.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-sco-13210.htm?ebul=cons/mar10&cr=11
17 March 2010 - Two directors of a decorating firm have been prosecuted after a
worker was left brain damaged while working at a residential refurbishment.
Self-employed Trevor Dawson from Ravensthorpe, West Yorkshire, was working as a
painter on a student accommodation refurbishment when the incident happened 15
August 2007.
The HSE investigation found principal contractor Foster Turn-Key Contracts Ltd and
Liversedge Decorating Contractors Ltd, contracted to decorate the flats, had allowed
work to be carried out that was not adequately planned or supervised and had used
inappropriate equipment.
Liversedge Decorating Contractors Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching regulation 4 (1)
of the Work at Height Regulations 2005, and were fined £2,000. Paul Daniel of
Brighouse, and Clive Dewhirst of Dewsbury, both directors of the firm, also pleaded
guilty to the same charge. They were fined £1,000 each. Foster Turn-Key Contractors
of Huddersfield, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 22 (1) of the Construction
(Design and Management) Regulations 2007. They were fined £2,000.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/press/2010/coi-yh-10310.htm?ebul=cons/mar10&cr=12
Further information
Working at height - http://www.hse.gov.uk/falls/index.htm?ebul=cons/mar10&cr=13
Scaffold checklist -
http://www.hse.gov.uk/construction/scaffoldinginfo.htm?ebul=cons/mar10&cr=14
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