HSE: Safeguards must be in place

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HSE: Safeguards must be in place Businesses must ensure that employees are provided with suitable workwear, that machinery is inspected regularly and that all possible safeguards are put in place, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned today.

The warning comes after an engineering company was prosecuted over an incident which resulted in an employee losing the tops of four fingers.

HSE investigating inspector Wai-Kin Liu said: "Operating power presses without suitable and appropriate guards is reckless and blatantly ignores the safety of employees, an act which cannot go unpunished. Power presses without suitable safeguards are among the most dangerous machines used in industry and the risks are well known."

Mr Liu reminded employers that it is a legal requirement that such machines have guards and said it was incomprehensible that in workers were still being injured by presses without safeguards.

According to government statistics, 241 people were killed at work over the last year.

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