The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has reiterated it’s warning to companies that they must control the risks from falls in the workplace. This follows the Court of Appeal’s decision to turn down a company’s appeal after they were fined £260,000 and ordered to pay £80,000 by Nottingham Crown Court in October 2007, after an employee died following a fall during construction work at Bilsthorpe. The employee died when he fell ten metres after leaning on an unsecured handrail on the mezzanine area of a cold store under construction.
Source: HSE