Legal prosecution examples
Case studies of legal prosecutions when it goes wrong
I have chosen three cases to illustrate the importance of employing a professional safety accredited window cleaner, one, which is insured, and will understand sound risk management.
Case 1 A restaurant and hotel firm has been fined £15,000
This case was on mainstream BBC news and attracted thousands of U tube visitors
It shows how the owner of an establishment can face prosecution even when they feel they have employed a professional window cleaner. In this case the window cleaner accessed external windows unsafely, the owner was fined £15,000 pounds.
Case 2 Lincolnshire window cleaner fined
Lincoln College employed a local window cleaning company, their window cleaner accesses a window from a flat roof and fell, and the judge said “Mr. Theaker has suffered life-changing injuries as a result of his fall. Lincoln College had a legal duty to check its contractors had proper procedures in place but failed to do so. The college plus costs of nearly 10,000 pounds, the window cleaning company fined £2,500 and ordered to pay costs of £2,948.20.
Case 3 A PUB chain fined £235,000 for death of a cleaner.
Cleaner died from a fractured skull after falling from a ladder. Prosecutor Alan Fuller said the Harvester’s risk assessments were “inadequate”, neither Mr. Pratley nor Ms Palmer – who later resigned – had been trained on ladder use and audits had not picked up the hazards in question. The PUB chain was fined £235,000
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