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£90,000 fine for failing to comply with safety notices over lifting gear (1 July 2016)

Date: 01/07/2016
Duncan Lewis, Legal News Solicitors, £90,000 fine for failing to comply with safety notices over lifting gear

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has prosecuted a Wrexham-based company, which repeatedly failed to comply with legal notices to get its lifting equipment examined.

HSE told the court that, between 4 April 2014 and 28 August 2015, GHA Coaches Limited failed to have its lifting equipment thoroughly examined within the required timescales to ensure that health and safety conditions were maintained – and that any deterioration could be detected and remedied in good time.

In 2015, an inspection revealed overdue Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) examinations on at least 14 items.

An improvement notice was served and extended twice – but still resulted in a failure to comply.

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that a previous improvement notice was served in 2011.

At Mold Magistrates’ Court, GHA Coaches Limited of Vauxhall Industrial Estate, Ruabon in Wrexham pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 9(3)(a)(ii) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations 1998 (LOLER) –
and failing to comply with an Improvement Notice.

The company was fined a total of £90,000 and ordered to pay costs of £3,068.

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