A real prosecution in Derby, what a council, a principal contractor or an injured employee's solicitor will ask you, and how PHW trains your people on your own site so you have the answer on the day.
About 1 minute 40 seconds. Sound on, captions built in. All the trade films are on the video page.
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Three things you need to be able to show.
A worker fell over 30 feet from a malfunctioning platform. The case is on record in our real cases library.
Read the caseIf one of your own people is hurt and claims against you, your training records are your evidence. A council, a principal contractor or an injured employee's solicitor will ask who is trained, and you need the answer on the day.
Up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic.
Real HSE prosecutions from this kind of work.
£20,000 + £4,824 costs · 2026-07-14
A dumper truck was driven into an unprotected excavation and overturned after the company had told workers not to wear seat belts (the driver was thrown out and suffered crushing leg injuries).
Read the case →£1,150,000 + £40,000 costs · 2026-09-09
An unsupported trench collapsed and buried a worker under two tonnes of soil, causing fatal injuries.
Read the case →£92,450 + £6,781 costs · 2026-05-13
A road milling machine operated without its protective guard caught a worker's foot, resulting in a right leg amputation at the scene.
Read the case →AP Tree Specialists Ltd in Derby was fined £20,000 after a worker fell over 30 feet from a malfunctioning platform. That is a criminal fine. No insurance policy pays it. The same law applies to your site. £250,000. The sentencing starting point for the most serious breaches, firms under £2m turnover. If someone dies, the police investigate. The charge can be corporate manslaughter. And a director can go to prison. And if one of your own people is hurt and claims against you, your training records are your defence. No records, no defence.
Whoever is free drives the dumper. Another cuts concrete. Nobody recorded who trained them. Then a council, a principal contractor or an injured employee's solicitor asks who is trained. You need the answer on the day.
Against that: up to four of your people assessed for competence in one day, on your own site and machines, with minimum downtime. PHW trains and assesses your people: mini excavator, dumper, roller, Stihl saw. Every certificate has a QR code. Scan it for the live record. PHW writes your site procedures, and keeps a training matrix: gaps and refreshers.
PHW has certificated thousands of candidates nationwide, for multinationals and small firms alike. PHW Services. Qualification through competence. Take the one-minute check at phwltd.com.