{"id":12341,"date":"2023-01-27T16:31:15","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/firm-fined-120000-for-lifting-two-builders-in-a-telehandler-bucket\/"},"modified":"2023-01-27T16:31:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T00:31:21","slug":"firm-fined-120000-for-lifting-two-builders-in-a-telehandler-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/firm-fined-120000-for-lifting-two-builders-in-a-telehandler-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"Firm fined \u00a3120,000 for lifting two builders in a telehandler bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A photograph caught the moment a pair of workers stood in the bucket of a telehandler to fit a stone into the top of a new home in Littleborough, Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n

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It was one of a number of health and safety failings found during construction work at The Villas development on Starring Road in Littleborough.<\/p>\n

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Health and Safety Executive inspectors visited the housing development on 7 July 2021 and issued Hoyle Developments, the site\u2019s principal contractor, with a prohibition notice for inadequate scaffolding and improvement notices for a lack of welfare facilities and insecure fencing.<\/p>\n

HSE inspectors had visited the same housing development site four times between November 2018 and August 2021.<\/p>\n

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Repeated breaches were found including a lack of sufficient welfare, unsuitable controls for work at height and inadequate protection from silica dust exposure.<\/p>\n

Rochdale-based Hoyle Developments was served with multiple notifications of contraventions, prohibition notices and improvement notices.<\/p>\n

It was fined \u00a3120,000 and ordered to pay \u00a33,165.15 in costs at Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court on 25 January 2023.<\/p>\n

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HSE inspector Mike Lisle said: \u201cThis proactive prosecution demonstrates that HSE will not hesitate to take proactive enforcement action against those that continuously fall below the required standards and demonstrate persistent poor health and safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cHealth and safety should be an integral part of any business, not an afterthought, and having a clear health and safety policy and construction phase plan in place, before work commences, can assist with ensuring this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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