Inspection regime would have detected fault

摘要

A waste management company has been fined ￡760,000 and ordered to pay costs of ￡16,170 after an employee and an agency worker fell from height. The fine equates to 31.1 % of the most recent pre-tax profit made by the company, Associated Waste Management (AWM). The case is one of two that were sentenced within days of each other at Leeds Crown Court to arise from incidents at different AWM sites (see below). The HSE has told HSB that it is unable to answer our questions on either case until an appeal is heard; nor is it able to state which of the cases the appeal involves (or indeed whether it involves both) or provide information on what the appeal concerns (although as guilty pleas were entered in both cases, it is likely to centre on the approach to, and severity of, the sentence(s)).