HSE Enforcement Actions

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.

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.

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.

Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea - Notice Case - IN/MA/RBK/241125/01