HSE warning after accident

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HSE warning after accident The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning over the absence of safe working practices after a European food business was fined £230,000 over two incidents, one of which saw an employee lose a hand.

Julie Jarvey, HSE inspector, said: "Both these incidents were wholly avoidable. [The victim] was failed by the company's lack of proper training, inadequate assessment of risks, absence of safe working practices and effective measures stopping access to dangerous equipment."

Warning the injuries the worker sustained – which may have been avoided with the use of safety gloves - could have been much worse due to the failings of the company, she added the HSE "will not hesitate" to take both big and small companies to court if they are seen to have too relaxed an attitude to the health and safety of their workers.

Elsewhere, a food processing firm was recently prosecuted by the HSE after a worker required a metal plate in her left arm following an incident which saw her limb become trapped in a potato blanching machine.

Posted by Josie Hill
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