Electrical safety: staying safe and avoiding fines

摘要

Safety management has to be made accessible to technical and nontechnical people so that risks to people and their business are safely reduced," says Bill Bates, a former principal inspector at the HSE with over 20 years' experience of investigating electrical safety breaches. In fact, the statistics speak for themselves: 2015/16 figures from HSE and Scotland's Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service report 696 cases of non-compliance with health and safety regulations, leading to 660 convictions - a 95% conviction rate. In total, ?38.3m of fines were issued by the courts in safety cases in 2015/16, compared to ?18.lm in 2014/15. According to the HSE's "Costs to Britain" assessment, the estimated cost of workplace injuries was ?4.8bn in 2014/15.