Fine for facilities management health and safety breach
June 8th 13:40 Health and Safety
Manufacturing companies may be inspired to invest in facilities management software after hearing how one firm has been fined over a health and safety breach.
A motor parts firm was ordered to pay a fine of £10,000 and an additional £5,000 in costs after an investigation showed that it had failed to safeguard one of its machines.
One employee suffered an injury after using the machine, which severed the tip of the staff member's finger.
The Bradford-based manufacturer, known as Federal Moguls, was found to be in breach of sections of the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 and of the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.
HSE inspector Morag Irwin said: "A suitable and sufficient risk assessment would have identified the need for control measures, the most obvious being guarding, to prevent access to the step feeder.
"Fitting guards is not a costly, time-consuming or difficult task, and had they been in place this incident would not have occurred and a painful injury could have been avoided." 
