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HOTELIER JAILED FOR 8 MONTHS FOR BREACH OF REGULATORY REFORM (FIRE SAFETY) ORDER 2005
Hotelier who runs two hotels has been prosecuted under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, for 15 offences.
The offences common to both hotels were:
• A lack of a suitable and sufficient fire risk assessment
• A failure to ensure effective means of escape with doors leading onto corridors not being fire resisting or having self-closers fitted
• A failure to ensure that emergency routes and exits were provided with emergency lighting
• A failure to ensure the premises were equipped with appropriate firefighting equipment, detectors and alarms in that there was no fire detection within the bedrooms
• A failure to ensure that equipment and devices provided were subject to a suitable system of maintenance in that the fire alarm system, emergency lighting system and firefighting equipment were not tested.
In addition at the one inspecting officers found both staircases from upper levels terminating in the same ground floor area with no alternative escape routes or separation, a locked fire exit door, and exit routes obstructed by combustible materials and a locked fire door.
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HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW CHANGES DUE 6 APRIL 2011
Legislative Reform (Contained Use of Animal Pathogens) Order 2010 (LRO)
Amendment of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act (Application Outside Great Britain) Order 2001
The Docks (Amendment) Regulation 2011
Pipelines Safety Regulations
The Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2011
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Lord Young has published his review of health and safety, Common Sense - Common Safety. Commissioned by the Prime Minister, the report makes recommendations for improving the way health and safety is applied and tackling the compensation culture.
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PROHIBITION NOTICE SERVED AFTER SERIOUS FIRE IN FLATS
POSTED BY 14 October 2010 INFO4FIRE.COM
The owner of a block of flats in Bolton has been served a prohibition notice under the Housing Act 2004, following a serious fire.
Inadequate means of escape and poor fire resistance throughout the block were among the breaches of fire safety regulations highlighted by Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.
Fire safety officers also found the fire doors to be inadequate and said that some were even missing.
A joint inspection by Manchester Fire and Rescue Service and the local council took place after the blaze, which started in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
The fire spread from the lobby of the ground floor to the ceiling, causing the plaster to burn through. A female was rescued from her room and taken to hospital suffering from severe smoke inhalation while a further 12 people were led to safety by firefighters from both the front and rear of the three-storey block. A total of 25 firefighters battled the fire, using hose reel jets.
The block was mixed use accommodation, with flats as well as commercial premises. The fire is currently under police investigation.
Protection of workers from artificial light.
On the 27 April The Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work Regulations 2010 came into force.
Generally most UK employers are already protection their employees and only those businesses that have not reduced the risks associated with AOR to as low as is reasonably practicable will have to undertake further work.
Guidance relating to this regulation can be obtained by clicking here
Bravanark has formed an alliance with a well established training provide for NEBOSH and CIEH and CITB courses.
This now allows us to offer a better selection of courses for all.
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£3m-a-year payouts for pupils who slip and trip
ACCIDENTS and mishaps in schools are costing £16,000 a day in compensation payments to pupils. Playground falls, slipping on ice and knocks during PE, which may once have been seen as part of the rough and tumble of school life, last year cost councils almost £3 million. In Derbyshire, £35,000 was awarded to a pupil injured after a collision dur¬ing a games lesson. In Barnsley, play¬ground slides have cost the council £13,000. One pupil who suffered a head injury while on a slide received £5,500; another received £7,500 for breaking a collar bone after falling off a slide. Hertfordshire Council paid a settle¬ment of £4,000 to a student whose injury was blamed on an inadequate warm-up session before a PE lesson. A student in Norfolk received £2,800 after breaking a hand against a piece of wood held in a vice. And cheerleading cost Middleborough Council £4,250 after a pupil fell over during practice.
The cases emerged after 131 out of 150 local education authorities res¬ponded to a survey, revealing payouts totaling £2.8 million in the 2008-09 financial year and £2 million in 2007-08.
Susie Squire, campaign manager at the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'While no doubt some of these claims are legiti¬mate, it's bonkers that many kids are getting cash just for falling over in the playground. Each claim needs to be more carefully evaluated.'
Other compensation payouts included:
• £4,250 for an injury sustained after a pupil in Warrington was made 'to wear inappropriate footwear';
• £6,000 to a pupil hurt after tripping in a playground pothole in Bexley, London; • £800 to a pupil from Hammersmith who suffered dental injuries when a teacher threw a lollipop that rebounded off a desk and struck the pupil's face;
• £6,000 in Suffolk to a pupil who broke a toe playing basketball barefoot — and £9,000 to another Suffolk child who was hit by a calculator and broke a tooth. Professor Frank Furedi, a sociologist at Kent University, said that the 'claims culture' could weaken standards in education. 'You end up not doing things in the best interest of the child but in such a way as to minimise legal action,' he said.
The Department for Children, Schools and Families said: 'Schools are gener¬ally safe places but accidents happen, and deciding whether compensation is due will be a matter for the courts if and when cases are brought.'
By Helen Dowd Mail on Sunday 2nd August 2009
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