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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 two Improvement Notices, relating to welding fume control and health surveillance for noise)
“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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