Passenger-lift hazards highlighted by London fatality

摘要

Local authorities and other operators of minibuses and welfare buses are being alerted to the dangers of failing to follow safe procedures for loading and unloading wheelchairs and mobility scooters.rnThe warning comes after a City of London magistrates court last month found Southwark Council guilty of breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. The council was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,466.rnAll this follows a fatal incident in September 2006 in the car park of Alexandra Palace, Wood Green, north London, as people from a day-centre run by Southwark Council were preparing to return home after visiting an exhibition.