I have compiled a list of 2013′s ten most popular health & safety articles on theEHP. This list has been complied by analysing the most viewed articles on the site.
1. Health & Safety: Tesco to pay over £59,000 for two serious accidents
The action follows investigations of 2 serious accidents at the Tesco’s Beaumont Leys Store. The first involved a member of the public (Angela Pownall) being hit whilst shopping in the store, by a pallet truck that was being pulled by a Tesco’s employee. The second involved the main entrance door to the Petrol Filling Station collapsing on a Tesco’s employee (Linda Porter) when she opening up at the start of day. (Photos on Flickr)
2. Health & Safety: New Forest Poundstretchers fined for health and safety offences
Poundstretcher Limited, which operates two retail shops in the New Forest, has been fined a total of £48,000 and ordered to pay £8,997 costs, following prosecution by New Forest District Council for health and safety offences.
3. Health & Safety: New code curbs unnecessary safety checks
Local authorities are being banned from unnecessary health and safety inspections under a new code. The new National Local Authority Enforcement Code came into effect on Wednesday 29 May 2013.
4. Health & Safety: Warwick Castle fatal accident – Case Summary
Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd, the company that operates Warwick Castle, has been convicted of failing to protect the health and safety of visitors, following a 7 day trial. Read the case summary by Daniel Mulryan.
5. 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.
6. Health & Safety: Warwick Castle Fails in Bid to Overturn £350,000 Fine
In April last year, following a 7 day trial, a jury convicted the company that operates Warwick Castle of two health and safety offences. The prosecution followed an accident in December 2007 when George Townley, a visitor to the Castle, fell 14 feet from the Bear & Clarence Bridge, suffering fatal head injuries. The trial judge fined Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd. (Merlin) £350,000 and awarded Warwick District Council, prosecuting, £145,000 costs.
7. Health & Safety: Pub Company Fined After Worker Suffered a Potentially Fatal Electric Shock
At a hearing at Nuneaton Magistrates Court on 24 January 2013, the Peach Pub Company Ltd. that operates the Almanack restaurant in Kenilworth, pleaded guilty to two health and safety offences. The Company was fined £15,000 and, prosecuting, Warwick District Council was awarded full costs of £6,675 (Photo on Flickr).
8. 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.
9. Health & Safety: Shop owner prosecuted for underage sunbed session sale
A Blackwood shop owner has been taken to court and fined for allowing the sale of a sunbed session to a child during a council test purchase operation.
10. Health & Safety: Newham Council in court over teenager’s fireball horror
A London borough council has been sentenced for a serious safety breach after a 15 year-old girl was engulfed in a fireball from a cooking stove during a school camping expedition.
