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Thanet District Council has reported it has successfully prosecuted a local golf club company for failing to ensure the health, safety and welfare of its employees.
The council reports that having received a RIDDOR (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations) report, its Public Protection Team investigated an incident at the North Foreland Golf Club in which a man was injured at work and suffered burns from an explosion.
Two sets of charges
A decision was made to bring two sets of charges against Kingsgate Golf Club
Limited.
The first – under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 – was for failing to ensure, so far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of employees.
The second was under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, for failing to provide details of substances hazardous to health, to which an employee was liable to be exposed.
Fined
On Friday 23 November 2018, in a trial at Margate Magistrates’ Court, Kingsgate
Golf Club Ltd pleaded guilty to both charges. They were ordered to pay a total
of of £10,873.21.
This includes a fine of £3,300, £7,373.21 costs and a £170 victim surcharge.
Cllr. Lesley Ann Game, Cabinet Member for Housing and Safer Neighbourhoods
commented: “All employers have a duty to protect the health, safety and welfare
of their employees and need to take reasonable steps to do so. No one should
have to be exposed to unnecessary danger at work. While prosecution is not
something we undertake lightly, in a case as serious as this one, it was deemed
necessary. This case highlights the importance of ensuring the health and safety
of employees at all times and the very serious consequences of non compliance.”