Ten people, including two children, have been rescued from flats after an arson attack on a bookmaker’s shop beneath in Newry. The Fire and Rescue Service said the blaze in the four-storey building in Corn Market was already well-developed when crews arrived just after 0300 BST. Sixteen people live in the flats but six had already got out before fire… read more →
A Surrey hotel with no working fire alarm and disabled self-closures on fire doors has been fined £15,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,800. Surrey Fire and Rescue Service investigated the 22-bed Chalk Lane Hotel in Epsom after a tip-off from a guest staying there. Officers found a defective fire alarm system, fire doors with self-closing devices that had… read more →
The landlord, tenant and manager of a Chinese restaurant have together had to pay more than £26,000 at Guildford Crown Court for breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Landlord Colin Perry, his tenant Pei Yu Liang, and manager Wen Chun Yeoh, were last week each convicted of between seven and nine breaches of the legislation, having all… read more →
A care home company has been fined £5,000 for failing to have the required precautions in place to control legionella bacteria. SJ Care Homes Ltd was prosecuted by the HSE after the company failed to comply with an enforcement notice issued at one of its nursing homes. HSE Inspector, Sandra Tomlinson, issued the notice after a routine visit to Beech… read more →
Footage filmed for a TV documentary about medics has been used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work after the death of a 25-year-old. Regentford Ltd, of Hackney, was yesterday fined £250,000 after being convicted of breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, following an eight-day trial at Croydon… read more →
A Black Country waste management firm has been fined £12,000 after a guard-rail gave way, resulting in a worker falling nearly three metres, narrowly missing a crushing machine. AB Waste Management Ltd was prosecuted by the HSE for the safety failing. The company pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 5 of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998, and… read more →
Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay costs of £42,000 this week, following the death in 2006 of an employee. The prosecution follows the death of 57-year-old yard shunter, Colin Smith, who was killed in September 2006 at Royal Mail’s Heathrow Worldwide Distribution Centre (HWDC). Royal Mail Group Ltd was ordered to pay £90,000 and costs of… read more →
A company that owned a London hotel has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to six offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Malfax Investments Limited, which owned the Averard Hotel on Lancaster Gate in Bayswater, was sentenced this week at Westminster Magistrates Court. The hotel was inspected by fire… read more →
A major construction company has been fined £185,000 for failing to separate vehicles from pedestrians on a building site in Lancashire. Carillion JM Ltd, which is part of the multinational Carillion plc group, was the principal contractor for the construction of Kingsway Business Park in Rochdale. On 11 November 2008, Michael Gresty was helping to build a roadway around a… read more →
Seven adults and a child were sent to hospital suffering from the effects of smoke inhalation following a fire at a north London shop and flats. The whole of the staircase from the ground floor to the second floor was completely destroyed in the fire in Green Lanes, Tottenham, as was part of the ground floor shop. Fourteen people on… read more →
