Anyone in need of an antitdote to stories about the burden of complying with overly complicated health and safety laws may be interested in news of a garden centre in Lancashire prosecuted after an employee broke his ankle falling from the top of a skip.
The company was fined £8000 after it turned out that there was a door at the bottom of the skip allowing access at ground level. Nobody had told the worker concerned so he climbed a ladder on the side of the skip to fill it from the top, overbalanced and fell.
The “hierarchy of control for working at height” might not be very meaningful to someone who’s never come across the Work at Height Regs, but the idea of telling your staff there’s a door at ground level so they don’t need to use a ladder is a fairly simple one.
Jocelyn
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