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Monthly Archives: February 2011
Construction Safety Update Enforcement Actions – February 2011
CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION INITIATIVE 2011 HSE inspectors are now carrying out intensive inspection initiatives across GB aimed at stopping dangerous practices on building sites. The inspection initiative runs from Monday 14 February 2011 until Friday 11 March. In Merseyside, HSE inspectors … Continue reading
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£385,000 Fine for First Corporate Manslaughter Conviction
The first company to stand trial under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has been fined £385,000 after being found guilty by the jury at Winchester Crown Court. The conviction of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd came after a … Continue reading
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Cotswold Geotechnical is First Company to be Convicted under new Corporate Manslaughter Laws
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has today become the first company to be convicted of the new offence of corporate manslaughter. Alex Wright was 27-years-old when he died on 5 September 2008. He was a geologist for Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings and was … Continue reading
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Ecuador Judge Orders Chevron to Pay $9 Billion
A judge in a tiny courtroom in the Ecuadorean Amazon ruled Monday that the oil giant Chevron was responsible for polluting remote tracts of Ecuadorean jungle and ordered the company to pay more than $9 billion in damages, one of … Continue reading
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Corporate Manslaughter Case – update….
A businessman employing a geologist who died in a pit when it collapsed in on him said he was “astonished” his employee had gone down into it, a court has heard. Peter Eaton, who was the director of Cotswold Geotechnical … Continue reading
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First corporate manslaughter case begins
A company has denied unlawfully killing a worker in the first prosecution of a business for corporate manslaughter under new laws. Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd denies unlawfully killing 27-year-old geologist Alexander Wright when the trench he was working in collapsed … Continue reading
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Judge sends Derbyshire woman to prison for distress caused to pet owners.
A Derbyshire women has been sentenced to four months in prison for the illegal collection, disposal and handling of pets and clinical waste. She was sentenced to a total to eight months in prison for charges also brought by Trading … Continue reading
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Recent HSE prosecutions and enforcement action in the construction sector
Work at height 7 January 2011 -£5,000 fine issued after three workers fell through skylights at the same industrial unit in Warrington on three separate occasions – leaving one of them paralysed. HSE prosecuted Bizspace Investments Ltd after a caretaker … Continue reading
