11-02-2008
HSE issues advice to employers
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The UK's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a warning to Britain's businesses in relation to accidents involving dangerous machinery components.
Following the injury of an employee in 2006, the HSE is urging firms to ensure that individuals are unable to obtain access to machinery components considered to be dangerous.
The accident resulted in a maintenance engineer losing the tip from one of his fingers.
"This was a wholly avoidable incident had the company followed the correct procedures. The danger of unguarded machinery cannot be highlighted too much," said Sandra Tomlinson, an inspector with the HSE, an organisation funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.
"It is the employers duty to ensure that risks to safety within the workplace are adequately assessed and that correct control measures are implemented to avoid injury."
As a consequence of the incident, a firm in Manchester was found to have breached Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and Regulation 11 (1) of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998.
