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Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire · Warrington Magistrates' Court
A company carried out mild steel welding without local exhaust ventilation, adequate welfare facilities or a noise risk assessment. It failed to implement controls or provide health surveillance for noise-exposed employees despite two HSE improvement notices.
Injuries: No specific injuries reported; workers were exposed to carcinogenic welding fumes and hearing damage risk
Section 33(1)(g) of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (failure to comply with Improvement Notices); Regulation 9(1) of the Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005
“This was a company that put its workers at risk of serious, long-term health conditions because it repeatedly failed to get the basics right.”
An improvement notice is not optional; failing to act on it after a set deadline is itself a prosecutable offence.
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