An engineering
company has been heavily fined £30,000 after failing to carry out a risk
assessment on their equipment.
It is a legal requirement to carry out risk assessments in
the workplace so that employers can discover what measures need to be taken to remove
any health and safety dangers. Companies that fail to carry out the necessary
risk assessments on their equipment are at risk of breaching the Health and
Safety at Work Act.
An engineering company has recently been fined £30,000 as
well as ordered to pay additional costs of £7,670 for failure to carry out risk
assessments on a lifting process. The company were prosecuted by The Health and
Safety Executive (HSE) after an employee was seriously injured when they were
hit by a metal structure during a lifting procedure.
To avoid situations like these occurring, businesses should
ensure that they have a process in place whereby they are aware of exactly what
equipment needs a risk assessment and when it is required.
C365 can store risk assessment documents on a Cloud based
solution which is easily accessible through a browser. From this, a user can
ascertain when risk assessments are due, keeping them compliant.
As an employer, it is your responsibility to ensure that any
risk assessments are completed on time to ensure that sufficient health and
safety standards are maintained in the workplace.
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