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A round-up of the 10 biggest health and safety prosecutions of 2018.
The top 10 is measured by what SHP readers have shown most interest in.
For the first time this year, all of the top 10 biggest health and safety prosecutions include fines of £1 million and over. What’s more, the top ten doesn’t even include all fines which came in the £1 million and over category.
Every one of these companies prosecuted had internal and or external H&S advisors. They also had approved standards and accreditation’s.
Why doesn’t SHP write about something that will help us all understand what businesses actually need to prevent and protect.
SHP could write about 83.3% of companies prosecuted 2016/17 were affiliated with one or more safety schemes or other best practice accreditation’s?
Number 1: Bupa fined £3m in 2018 for a pensioner death in one of their care homes in Essex due to a Legionnaires from a tap in his room. The care home didn’t have any processes for flushing taps etc.
Costain and Galliford Try were each fined £1.4 million. Total with costs c£2.9 million – no. 1 prosecution?
Every one of these companies prosecuted had internal and or external H&S advisors. They also had approved standards and accreditation’s.
Why doesn’t SHP write about something that will help us all understand what businesses actually need to prevent and protect.
SHP could write about 83.3% of companies prosecuted 2016/17 were affiliated with one or more safety schemes or other best practice accreditation’s?
Number 1: Bupa fined £3m in 2018 for a pensioner death in one of their care homes in Essex due to a Legionnaires from a tap in his room. The care home didn’t have any processes for flushing taps etc.
Hi Richard, this story was covered here: https://www.shponline.co.uk/in-court/bupa-fined-3m-after-legionnaires-death-of-elderly-resident/. The article above is measured by what SHP readers have shown most interest in, rather than the largest fines.