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Failure to name and shame safety prosecutions - 01-05-2008 | The safety agency that prosecutes companies and individuals for health and safety offences fails to publicise the vast majority of its convictions – including those involving deaths - new research by the Centre for Corproate Accountability shows.
This is despite the fact that one of the main purposes of these kinds of prosecutions is to act as a deterrent against other employers from committing similar offences.
The research shows that in 2007, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) only issued a press release following 33% of its cases – 167 cases out of 502 - that resulted in a conviction. In 335 of these cases, it did not issue a press release
In the 84 of these conviction cases that involved a death, the HSE only issued a press release following 45 of them - 54% of cases. In 39 death-related convictions the HSE did not issue a press release.These included for example:
- conviction of Symonds Nursing Homes fined £12,000 in February 2007, after a resident suffered fatal burns
conviction of London Central Bus Company, fined £80,000 in March 2007 after a man fell into the examination pit;.
- conviction of CF Roberts, (Electrical Contractors) PLC, fined £100,750 in May 2007 after a worker was electrocuted.
- conviction of Northern Hydraulic Cylinder Engineers Ltd, fined £10,000 in July 2007 when Engineer sustained fatal head injuries when he was struck by fitting ejected from hydraulic cylinder;
- conviction of Bifrangi UK Ltd, fined £65,000, in September 2007 after a worker was caught in a drilling machine
| Centre for Corporate Accountability
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