This Week at theEHP: No 90

by | May 1, 2013 | This Week at theEHP |

This Week at theEHP: No 90

Welcome to This Week at theEHP, a summary of the recent articles to appear on theEHP.com.

This week at theEHP we report on new enforcement tools from the FSA, public health priorities, prosecutions and RPT Decisions.

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Environmental Protection

Environmental Protection: Landlord prosecuted for excess waste
A Yorkshire based landlord has been prosecuted by Hull City Council after a large amount of waste was allowed to accumulate on a property in Hull.

Food Safety

Food Safety: FSA adds development tools for enforcement officers
The FSA provides help for officers to develop their knowledge through training tools, professional courses and funding for local authority-led work. For officers currently looking at their development plans, the Agency has added two new tools to the Enforcement section of the website.

Health & Safety

Health & Safety: Business owner fined for dangerous inflatable slide
Flintshire County Council Environmental Health Officers from the Health and Safety Enforcement Section have successfully prosecuted Mr Ian Freeman of the Black Horse Inn, Mold Road, Buckley for the use of a dangerous large inflatable slide at the rear of the premises in May 2012.

Health & Safety: Cornwall takeaway owner fined for health and safety offence
On 17 April 2013 at Bodmin Magistrates Court, Mr Zhang He Gong the food business operator at the Ocean Dragon Takeaway in Looe, was found guilty of one offence in relation to health and safety standards.

Housing

Housing: Landlord fined again on worst offending street in Leeds
A landlord has been prosecuted for the second time after putting tenant’s lives in danger from possible carbon monoxide poisoning after a boiler was moved and wrongly positioned.

Housing: Slumlord hit with record fine sees shed with bed razed
A shed with bed – belonging to a slumlord hit with a record £27,700 in fines, costs and confiscation orders for illegal properties – has been razed.

Housing: Big court bill for Sandwell landlord over repairs failure
The owner of a Sandwell estate of eight blocks of flats has been hit with a massive £45,900 penalty by magistrates for failing to carry out repairs.

Public Health

Public Health: Public Health England priorities for 2013 to 2014
The priorities encompass the organisation’s broad remit, ranging from protecting and improving the nation’s health to building the public health system and increasing its own expertise.

Public Health: Brent shisha bars warned as crackdown continues
Brent Council has warned that it will continue to crack down on shisha bars which flout smoke-free legislation as three more proprietors are ordered to pay over £1,000 each following legal action.

Public Health: Rhondda Cynon Taf smoker fined £560
A Tonypandy resident has been forced to cough up the largest smoking fine so far in Rhondda Cynon Taf! It was a very pricey cigarette for Mr Gethin Richards as he has been fined £560 for thoughtlessly throwing his cigarette butt on to the highway on Cowbridge Road, Pontyclun.

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Fully revised and updated, Fitness for Work, fifth edition now includes, for the first time, important new chapters on work in cancer survivors, health promotion in the workplace, and managing and avoiding sickness absence. Following in the all-encompassing and comprehensive tradition of the previous editions, it also continues to provide coverage of and information on support for rehabilitation, work at older ages, health screening, and the full array of medical and surgical health problems that can affect fitness for work.

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RPT Decisions

RPT Decision: Improvement Notice Appeal (BIR/00GL/HIN/2012/0013)
This case relates to an Appeal against an Improvement Notice issued by City of Stoke on Trent Council. The Improvement Notice included Category 1 and 2 hazards at the property. The Category 1 hazard relates to Excess Cold. The Midland Panel upheld the Improvement Notice but varied certain Schedules.

RPT Decision: Rent Repayment Order (LON/00AP/HMA/2013/0004)
This case relates to an Application for a Rent Repayment Order, made by London Borough of Haringey for the recovery of Housing Benefit. The London Panel awarded the Rent Repayment Order of £12,237.66 to be paid back in Housing Benefit to the Local Authority.

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