A real prosecution in Larkhall, what HSE or an auditor 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 was fatally struck by falling granite slabs. 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. HSE or an auditor 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.
Blythe Marble Limited in Larkhall was fined fifty thousand pounds after a worker was fatally struck by falling granite slabs. That is a criminal fine. No insurance policy pays it. The same law applies to your workshop. 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.
Slabs move on the forklift and A-frames. Silica dust hangs in the air. Nothing is written down. Then HSE or an auditor 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: forklift, slab slinging, silica dust, abrasive wheels. Every certificate has a QR code. Scan it for the live record. PHW also writes your slab handling and dust 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.