A roofing firm has appeared in court after a member of the public took pictures of an employee working on a roof without any safety equipment and sent them to the HSE.
Nottingham Magistrates’ Court heard that a member of the public was passing a factory in Farrar Close, Newark, on 8 June 2010, when they noticed a worker cleaning the roof without any safety equipment, edge protection, or a harness to prevent him from falling. The passer-by took photos of the man undertaking the work and notified the HSE.
An HSE inspector visited the site the next day and learned that Michael Hallwood and his son Michael Thomas Hallwood, trading as Cladding Coatings, had been contracted to clean and paint the roof. The inspector found that the roof had 80 potentially fragile rooflights and no safety measures had been put in place to protect the worker from falling through them.€
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I cannot understand how a roofing company has little or no training in working at height or why did the company not have a working at height policy in place for contractors working on there premisis. it cost more money to have everything in place to do a proper job like that. thats the thing that kills people it will not take long to do that job people look at speed instead of saftey for the people working for them. its a killer.
Again no mention of the building owner! Has there been a change in HSE policy?