The Health and Safety Executive has served a Prohibition Notice on a South Tyneside company as part of an ongoing investigation into an outbreak of Legionnaires disease. The Prohibition Notice stops the operation of four cooling towers at Faltec Ltd site in Boldon where four employees and a nearby resident have been infected by legionella bacteria. Sampling of the water…
Profit was put before lives at a hotel with no fire alarms and no escape route, a court heard today. Stewart Woods, 56, was told he could face jail after admitting breaching a raft of fire safety laws at Sefton Magistrates’ Court. Woods, who still lives at the Norland Hotel in Bath Street, Southport, ignored a prohibition notice from Merseyside…
West Midlands Fire Service said Daljit Singh blatantly disregarded its safety advice on numerous occasions. Singh owned the Hop Pole Inn in Oxley Manor Road, Wolverhampton, and was regularly visited by fire inspectors over a two-year period. But he repeatedly failed to remedy the safety breaches, despite a total of seven visits from fire safety officers, Wolverhampton Crown Court was…
THE families of three men who died of legionnaires’ disease are still waiting to find out if a company linked to the outbreak will face manslaughter charges. Victims Richard Griffin, of Westbury Park, 79-year-old William Hammersley, of Chesterton, and Harry Cadman, aged 71, of Stoke-on-Trent, all died after being struck down with the disease which was linked to Fenton discount…
A primary school is to partially re-open today after the potentially harmful bacteria legionella was discovered in parts of its water supply, the Guardian Series reports. Nightingale Primary School in London was closed on Monday after inspectors at Redbridge council found legionella in two buildings. The airborne bacteria, commonly found in man-made water systems, is considered low-risk when managed properly but can cause Legionnaires’…
A Flintshire-based gardening company has been fined £23,000 after an employee suffered burns while using a cigarette lighter to set fire to a pile of giant hogweed doused with petrol. Greenstripe Ltd was prosecuted by the Health & Safety Executive after an investigation found the employee had been told by his manager to burn the waste vegetation. Warrington Crown Court…
The owner of Abbey College, an independent school in Malvern, has been fined £24,000 at Worcester Crown Court yesterday for serious breaches in fire safety law, and agreed to pay prosecution costs of a further £25,000. Hekmat Kaveh pleaded guilty to breaching the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Hereford & Worcester Fire and Rescue Service brought the prosecution against…