Source · Health & safety enforcement

HSE Enforcement Actions

217 total actions 173 improvement notices 23 prohibition notices 10 convictions · £1,656,600 fines 11 Crown censures

Health and Safety Executive enforcement actions: improvement and prohibition notices, criminal convictions, and Crown censures against government bodies.

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Barking,Havering & Redbridge Uni Hosp NHS Trust

Improvement Notice Not complied Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust 86900 - OTHER HUMAN HEALTH ACTIVITIES
04 Mar 2026 Comply by 26 Nov 2026
Havering
Failure to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety, and welfare of your employees by failing to have suitable arrangements for the effective planning, organisation, control, monitoring and review of your preventive and protective measures for the provision of relevant clinical details for samples which may contain Hazard Group 3 biological agents.
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Fastlathe Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied Masta Limited 71129 - ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES NEC
27 Feb 2026 Comply by 08 May 2026
Amber Valley
IN served - You have failed to ensure that exposure of your employees to substances hazardous to health, namely water-mix metalworking fluid mist, when operating the Hardinge V480 Machining Centre (serial number CVLB8L 0043) is either prevented or where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled.
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Robinson Brothers Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied Close Brothers Limited 20140 - ORGANIC BASIC CHEMICALS NEC
06 Feb 2026 Comply by 06 May 2026
Sandwell
PUWER 4(1) - Robinson Brothers Ltd have failed to ensure the health and safety of their employees in that they have failed to ensure that work equipment, specifically Bulk Methanol Storage Tank T122 (manufacturer’s job number 620186) and Tank T123 are so constructed as to be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended, in that they have not been bolted down so as to prevent movement of the tanks. PUWER 6(2) - Robinson Brothers Ltd have failed to ensure the health and safety of their employees in that they have failed to ensure that structural steelwork supporting safety critical pipework, vessels and other equipment is in itself included on the register of safety critical equipment, and so inspected at suitable intervals to ensure that any deterioration of said steelwork can be detected and remedied in good time, so as to avoid a significant loss of containment.
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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (Note 5)

Improvement Notice Not complied Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 84110 - GENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
02 Feb 2026 Comply by 29 May 2026
Kensington & Chelsea
Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Notice Case - IN/MA/RBK/241125/01
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O E S Medical Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied Exora Medical Limited 32990 - OTHER MANUFACTURING NEC
29 Dec 2025 Comply by 26 Mar 2026
West Oxfordshire
IN/OESML/091225/EO/01 - You have failed to ensure that the exposure of your employees to a substance hazardous to health, namely water-mix metalworking fluid mist, which may result in an identifiable disease or adverse health effect (including occupational asthma) used in CNC machine 5, Mill Doosan VC430 (Serial: MV0039-001170), is either prevented or, where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled. IN/OESML/091225/EO/02 - You have failed to provide Health Surveillance, where it is appropriate for the protection of the health of your employees who are, or are liable to be, exposed to water-mix metalworking fluid, which is a substance hazardous to health, which could cause respiratory disease and dermatitis.
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W & K Precision Engineering Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied B & D Civil Engineering Limited 25110 - MF METAL (PARTIAL) STRUCTURES
08 Dec 2025 Comply by 11 Mar 2026
East Riding
Improvement Notice 315508538 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE2 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that measures are taken which are effective to prevent access to any dangerous part of machinery or stop the movement of any dangerous part of machinery before any part of a person enters a danger zone. Namely access can be gained to the tooling of 8 of your CNC machines due to defeated interlocks on the machinery doors. Improvement Notice 315508550 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE3 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that the exposure of your employees to substances hazardous to health, namely the mist generated from metalworking fluids in your various CNC Machining Centres, is either prevented or, where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled. Improvement Notice 315508552 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE4 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that employees who are liable to be exposed to metalworking fluids are provided with such health surveillance as is appropriate having regards to the risks to their health and safety.
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W & K Precision Engineering Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied B & D Civil Engineering Limited 25110 - MF METAL (PARTIAL) STRUCTURES
08 Dec 2025 Comply by 10 Jun 2026
East Riding
Improvement Notice 315508538 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE2 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that measures are taken which are effective to prevent access to any dangerous part of machinery or stop the movement of any dangerous part of machinery before any part of a person enters a danger zone. Namely access can be gained to the tooling of 8 of your CNC machines due to defeated interlocks on the machinery doors. Improvement Notice 315508550 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE3 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that the exposure of your employees to substances hazardous to health, namely the mist generated from metalworking fluids in your various CNC Machining Centres, is either prevented or, where this is not reasonably practicable, adequately controlled. Improvement Notice 315508552 - LEEDS/EA4/021225/WKPE4 Issued as you have failed to ensure the health and safety of your employees in that you have failed to ensure that employees who are liable to be exposed to metalworking fluids are provided with such health surveillance as is appropriate having regards to the risks to their health and safety.
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North Lanarkshire Council

Improvement Notice Not complied North Lincolnshire Council 84110 - GENERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
26 Nov 2025 Comply by 06 Apr 2026
North Lanarkshire UA
Notice: 315509825 - Serial Number: IAWU5G25261125-1 You have failed to make and give effect to such arrangements as are appropriate for the management of health and safety, which are appropriate to your activities and which are proportionate to the risks to be managed, in that the system in place for the selection of access equipment for work at height for employees working at community playparks is not effective, giving risk to the injury of one of your employees.
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Polymer Holdings Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied DfT OLR Holdings Limited 22190 - MF OF OTHER RUBBER PRODUCTS
16 Nov 2025 Comply by 24 Dec 2025
Aberdeenshire UA
Notice INGMcE/PHL/101025/01 Serial number 315466577 You have failed to ensure that the Local exhaust ventilation system provided to control exposure to the fumes generated while heating the granulated plastic (which is a substance hazardous to health) has been subject to a thorough examination and test within the preceding 14 months. Notice 315466609 Serial number INGMcE/PHL/101025/02 You have failed to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk from noise to the health and safety of your employees.
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Polymer Holdings Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied DfT OLR Holdings Limited 22190 - MF OF OTHER RUBBER PRODUCTS
16 Nov 2025 Comply by 24 Dec 2025
Aberdeenshire UA
Notice INGMcE/PHL/101025/01 Serial number 315466577 You have failed to ensure that the Local exhaust ventilation system provided to control exposure to the fumes generated while heating the granulated plastic (which is a substance hazardous to health) has been subject to a thorough examination and test within the preceding 14 months. Notice 315466609 Serial number INGMcE/PHL/101025/02 You have failed to carry out a suitable and sufficient assessment of the risk from noise to the health and safety of your employees.
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Morrow Brothers Limited

Improvement Notice Not complied Close Brothers Limited 33190 - REPAIR OF OTHER EQUIPMENT
27 Oct 2025 Comply by 01 Dec 2025
South Ribble
1x IN issued (1/1) IN/27/10/25/7/RGC/1 You have failed to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of your employees. You have failed to make a suitable and sufficient of the risk from noise to the health and safety of your employees.
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Every Child Every Day Academy Trust

Improvement Notice Not complied EVERY CHILD, EVERY DAY ACADEMY TRUST 85200 - PRIMARY EDUCATION
20 Oct 2025 Comply by 17 Dec 2025
Kingston-upon-Thames
315416546 IN/G17U3/20102025/KA01 You have failed to produce a written plan identifying those parts of Hollyfield School & Sixth Form Centre where asbestos is or is liable to be present and the measures which are to be taken for managing the risks are specified. 315416573 IN/G17U3/20102025/KA02 You have failed to provide a suitable and sufficient assessment to determine the presence of asbestos in the premises, and if present, the condition of that asbestos has not been made.
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