A real prosecution in Bradford, what HSE or the Environment Agency 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.
Three things you need to be able to show.
A worker was fatally struck by a reversing skip wagon. 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 the Environment Agency 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.
£40,000 + £17,034 costs · 2026-09-14
A fire extinguisher being discharged for recycling exploded and fatally struck a worker in the head.
Read the case →£40,000 + £6,181 costs · 2026-09-01
A father and son unloading scrap metal were struck by material falling from an unstable stockpile, one breaking a leg.
Read the case →£400,000 + £10,259 costs · 2026-08-13
A site operative was trapped between a gate post and a mobile shredder at a site where the company had not managed the movement of pedestrians and vehicles, suffering life-threatening injuries.
Read the case →Biffa Waste Services Ltd in Bradford was fined £2,480,000 after a worker was fatally struck by a reversing skip wagon. That is a criminal fine. No insurance policy pays it. The same law applies to your yard. £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.
Skip wagons reverse across the yard. Shovels and telescopic handlers keep moving. Pickers are on foot. Nothing is written down. Then HSE or the Environment Agency 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. Plus a written safe-system pack for each topic. PHW trains and assesses your people on your own site and machines: telescopic handler, 360 excavator, loading shovel. Every certificate has a QR code. Scan it for the live record. PHW writes your yard and plant 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.