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Company fined afer workers exposed to hazardous dust - 08-07-2008 |
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned companies to have safe systems in place for employees when using cutting machinery on woods which generate hazardous dusts.
The warning comes after a worker was injured by a cutting machine and colleagues were exposed to potentially harmful Western Red Cedar wood dust, despite company managers having attended a dedicated HSE woodworking Safety and Health Awareness Day.
Wragby-based E. H. Thorne (Beehives) Limited was fined £12,500 and ordered to pay £5,000 costs at Skegness Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and contravening Regulation 11 (1) (a) of the Provision of Use of Work Equipment Regulations.
On 26 June 2006, an employee's hand was injured when trying to remove a piece of wood that had jammed in the cutter block of a running woodworking machine, used in the manufacture of beehives. A number of employees were also routinely exposed to hazardous substances, namely Western Red Cedar wood dust, which can lead to long-term respiratory problems. This was despite tests on the extraction system identifying that the system was performing unsatisfactorily.
HSE Inspector for Lincolnshire Dr. Ian James Ellison said:
"This hand injury and exposure to a harmful wood dust could have been avoided if the company had acted upon the advice it had been given only months earlier by HSE at a dedicated woodworking event. It clearly did not. The scale of the deficiencies was reflected in the two prohibition notices and eight improvement notices issued requiring the company to act on the advice given at the safety awareness day event.
"Employers must ensure that this sort of work is properly planned to take account of health and safety risks and that employees are made fully aware of the risks associated with cutting machinery and hazardous substances."
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