Food distribution firm fined £60,000 over unsafe working practices

摘要

A food distribution company has been fined £60,000 after pleading guilty to four offences under health and safetylegislation at Birmingham Magistrates Court.Birmingham City Council prosecuted Pearl Food Distribution - based at Unit 33 Middlemore Industrial Estate,Middlemore Road, Birmingham - after a safety inspector saw an employee raised up on a pallet balanced on aforklift truck to pass items up to a mezzanine level during a visit on 7 March 2019 to sign off Improvement Notices.The officer also witnessed an employee using the loading bay incorrectly.