Company fined £1million after delivery driver killed
Date:
7 March 2018
A plastic product manufacturer has been fined £1million after a delivery driver was fatally injured.
Cambridge Crown Court heard how Gareth Wilson, a delivery driver for Mark Doel Transport Ltd, was fatally injured when he was struck by a fork lift truck which had large coils suspended from the forks.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd failed to properly manage workplace transport in the yard area where employees and members of the public were exposed to the risk of being hit. The investigation also found that the systems of work in place were not, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe.
Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd of St Peter’s Road, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and have been fined £1million and ordered to pay costs of £27,942.57
Speaking after the hearing HSE inspector Roxanne Barker said: “There are more than 5,000 accidents involving transport in the workplace every year, and, like in this case, sadly some of which are fatal.
“The HSE investigation found the yard was not organised to allow safe circulation of people and traffic as appropriate routes were not identified and therefore insufficient in number. A properly implemented Traffic Management Plan should have identified sufficient measures for the separation of vehicles and people including protected walkways, clear signage and barriers.”
Company fined £1million after delivery driver killed
Date:
7 March 2018
A plastic product manufacturer has been fined £1million after a delivery driver was fatally injured.
Cambridge Crown Court heard how Gareth Wilson, a delivery driver for Mark Doel Transport Ltd, was fatally injured when he was struck by a fork lift truck which had large coils suspended from the forks.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd failed to properly manage workplace transport in the yard area where employees and members of the public were exposed to the risk of being hit. The investigation also found that the systems of work in place were not, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe.
Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd of St Peter’s Road, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and have been fined £1million and ordered to pay costs of £27,942.57
Speaking after the hearing HSE inspector Roxanne Barker said: “There are more than 5,000 accidents involving transport in the workplace every year, and, like in this case, sadly some of which are fatal.
“The HSE investigation found the yard was not organised to allow safe circulation of people and traffic as appropriate routes were not identified and therefore insufficient in number. A properly implemented Traffic Management Plan should have identified sufficient measures for the separation of vehicles and people including protected walkways, clear signage and barriers.”
I don’t know the circumstances of this, but common sense must come in to it.
Company fined £1million after delivery driver killed
Date:
7 March 2018
A plastic product manufacturer has been fined £1million after a delivery driver was fatally injured.
Cambridge Crown Court heard how Gareth Wilson, a delivery driver for Mark Doel Transport Ltd, was fatally injured when he was struck by a fork lift truck which had large coils suspended from the forks.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd failed to properly manage workplace transport in the yard area where employees and members of the public were exposed to the risk of being hit. The investigation also found that the systems of work in place were not, so far as is reasonably practicable, safe.
Glynwed Pipe Systems Ltd of St Peter’s Road, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and have been fined £1million and ordered to pay costs of £27,942.57
Speaking after the hearing HSE inspector Roxanne Barker said: “There are more than 5,000 accidents involving transport in the workplace every year, and, like in this case, sadly some of which are fatal.
“The HSE investigation found the yard was not organised to allow safe circulation of people and traffic as appropriate routes were not identified and therefore insufficient in number. A properly implemented Traffic Management Plan should have identified sufficient measures for the separation of vehicles and people including protected walkways, clear signage and barriers.”
I don’t know the circumstances of this, but common sense must come in to it.
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Sorry common sense has been lost. Hence ott h and s. Though it sounds like basic h and s would have been something there
Conor:
Another trucker who has died doing his job and yet we still have the same dumbasses bleating on about H&S being rubbish.
Tbf I don’t actually know anybody (with a brain) who thinks H&S is ‘‘rubbish’’ …In it’s true definition that is .
It’s the way it is usually interpreted, and the ott enthusiasm by those in charge of it, that could be described as rubbish, …but mostly the methods and policies that are implemeted by them that is open to justified ridicule.
Conor:
Another trucker who has died doing his job and yet we still have the same dumbasses bleating on about H&S being rubbish.
Tbf I don’t actually know anybody (with a brain) who thinks H&S is ‘‘rubbish’’ …In it’s true definition that is .
It’s the way it is usually interpreted, and the ott enthusiasm by those in charge of it, that could be described as rubbish, …but mostly the methods and policies that are implemeted by them that is open to justified ridicule.
Exactly that. H&S is pant wettingly exciting to enthusiastic ones. The Keith Lards (of Phoenix nights). We’ve seen them, heard them, rolled our eyes at them.
If you complete a walk round of a jumbo at an airport, you have to wear ear defenders and a hi viz vest. But that’s it. Less crap to wear than at an transport hub
I started loading a transporter at a car plant and after the first few cars were on the snow came down, ungritted yard, steel decks on trucks at all sorts of angles, cold engines on cars…the list goes on. Drivers were asked if they were happy to continue loading or not, if not they had to unload and leave the premises. Does it really matter if the cars are going on or coming off? It’s the same risks, albeit in a slightly different order. I can only guess that if a driver replied he was happy to continue the company involved would use that as a get out of jail card if something happened. If you were unloading then it wasn’t clear how the vehicles would be returned to the load lanes as the access roads are for the load sticks and don’t meet the loading area.
Drivers are now no longer allowed access to the main building and any issues with vehicles/loading they have to go to security. The approved route is a 5 minute walk across the loading bays (and trucks have to reverse into them), alongside, and sometimes between, rows of parked cars and across areas of two way traffic plus the entry and exit gates. The walk is that far it nearly covers two health authorities
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