Caught on camera: firm fined after worker snapped standing on roof with no safety equipment

Caught on camera: firm fined after worker snapped standing on roof with no safety equipment

6:00am Saturday 26th April 2014 in News By Miranda Newey, Crime reporter

A ROOFING firm has been fined after a worker was photographed standing on a slanted rood with no safety measures in place.

Tyldesley based firm IQ Roofing Solutions was prosecuted after a member of the public snapped the worker on the roof.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspector visited in the site the same day on June 6 last year and issued a prohibition notice, ordering the staff to come down until scaffolding or other safety measures had been introduced.

Boss Stuart Bell, managing director of the firm, had been at the site earlier that day and knew work would be carried out without scaffolding, a court heard.

The firm, of Nelson Street in Tyldesley, had previously been served with a prohibition notice in 2011 following unsafe working practices.

Trafford Magistrates Court heard the IQ Roofing Solutions was unable to provide proof that it held employers liability insurance a legal requirement which allows workers to claim compensation if they are injured at work.

The business pleaded guilty to two breaches of work at height regulations and to a breach of the employers liability act.

The company was fined 3,000 and ordered to pay 2,000 court costs.

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