In our latest brief Thomas Carroll Management Services discuss the latest figures published by the Health and Safety Executive. The figures have shown an 80% rise in health and safety fines since 2015.
In the first full year where the new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences came into effect, fines have risen from £31 million to over £61 million, and included:
• Jaguar Land Rover were fined £900,00 after a worker lost leg following a car collision on the production line.
• KFC were fined £950,000 after two employees were burnt handling hot gravy from a microwave.
• Aldi were fined £1 million after a delivery driver suffered severe injuries to his foot while operating an electric pallet truck in store.
• Nottingham County Council were fined £1 million after a member of the public was struck by a tractor and suffered injuries to his arms, legs and head.
• South West Water were fined £1.8 million after a worker drowned in a sand filtration unit.
• Warburtons were fined £1.9 million after a worker’s arm got trapped in a conveyor belt, leaving him with friction burns requiring skin grafts.
• Wilko were fined £1.9 million after a woman was left paralysed when a cage full of tins of paint fell on her.
• Iceland were fined £2.5 million when a contractor died after falling 3 metres through suspended ceiling.
What these fines demonstrate is that an incident does not have to lead to a fatality in order for very large fines to be imposed by the courts and although larger businesses have attracted the headlines, smaller organisations are also seeing much larger fines.
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