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.
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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.
Four people trained and assessed on your own site is seven hundred and eighty pounds a day, or one hundred and ninety-five pounds per operator, minimum of four. A written safe-system pack is seventy-nine pounds a topic.
AP Tree Specialists Limited in Derby was fined twenty thousand pounds after a worker fell over thirty feet from a malfunctioning platform. That is a criminal fine. No insurance policy pays it. The same law applies to your site. Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds. The sentencing starting point for the most serious breaches, firms under two million pounds 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 with a saw. 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: four people trained and assessed on your own site is seven hundred and eighty pounds a day. A written safe-system pack is seventy-nine pounds a topic. PHW trains and assesses your people on your own site and machines: mini excavator, dumper, roller, cut-off 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.
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