Suffolk County Council fined for health and safety breaches
10/01/2012Suffolk County Council has been fined GBP 48,000 and ordered to pay costs totalling GBP 43,772 after admitting breaching health and safety laws at three of its premises, putting workers and members of the public at risk of personal injury.
Two of the premises in question were schools in the Suffolk area.
Ipswich Magistrates' Court heard that the council faced six charges from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigations into incidents at Burton End Primary School and Faringaye High School.
One charge related to an incident involving a nine-year-old who fell from a climbing frame at Burton End Primary School onto the concrete floor below, fracturing his skull and suffering a bleed on the brain.
The HSE investigation found Suffolk County Council had ignored a requirement to provide an impact absorbing surface under the climbing frame and it had not provided the school with enough information to ensure pupils could play on the climbing frame safely.
Two other charges followed an investigation into an IT technician's accident at work, when he fell while taking down a screen at the back of a stage after a Farlingaye High School theatre production in 2009.
Paul Rudland shattered his arm when he fell about four metres from a temporary aluminium platform, which was being pushed along while he was on the top of it.
He required an operation to insert a steel plate and nine metal pins into the shattered bone and was off work for five months because of his injuries.
Three further breaches relate to an investigation into the management of Suffolk council's highways department, which found that its employees had been working with vibrating machinery over several years and four had developed the debilitating hand arm vibration syndrome.
After the hearing Julie Rayner, the HSE inspector that brought the case, said: "These cases show the need for all organisations to ensure that they understand the risks in their business and take sufficient steps to manage and monitor them.
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Two of the premises in question were schools in the Suffolk area.
Ipswich Magistrates' Court heard that the council faced six charges from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigations into incidents at Burton End Primary School and Faringaye High School.
One charge related to an incident involving a nine-year-old who fell from a climbing frame at Burton End Primary School onto the concrete floor below, fracturing his skull and suffering a bleed on the brain.
The HSE investigation found Suffolk County Council had ignored a requirement to provide an impact absorbing surface under the climbing frame and it had not provided the school with enough information to ensure pupils could play on the climbing frame safely.
Two other charges followed an investigation into an IT technician's accident at work, when he fell while taking down a screen at the back of a stage after a Farlingaye High School theatre production in 2009.
Paul Rudland shattered his arm when he fell about four metres from a temporary aluminium platform, which was being pushed along while he was on the top of it.
He required an operation to insert a steel plate and nine metal pins into the shattered bone and was off work for five months because of his injuries.
Three further breaches relate to an investigation into the management of Suffolk council's highways department, which found that its employees had been working with vibrating machinery over several years and four had developed the debilitating hand arm vibration syndrome.
After the hearing Julie Rayner, the HSE inspector that brought the case, said: "These cases show the need for all organisations to ensure that they understand the risks in their business and take sufficient steps to manage and monitor them.
Posted by Trevor Baker
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