Matt Powell-Howard, NEBOSH, interviews our very own Joe Ryan about his career path to date – starting the journey with his time in the Royal Navy and exploring how that, and his love of sport prepared him for his career involving both building his own health and safety company and heading health and event safetyRead more
Interesting case here, London Zoo found to be guilty of two health & safety breaches with their fine reduced as they are a charity. We’re a bit torn on this one, does this create a sense of complacency amongst charities and provide opportunity for other organisations to plead for leniency if found to be in breach in the future?
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Granted they now have a prosecution on their record and one would expect them to be more pro-active in their approach in the future but something just doesn’t feel right about how the judge has decided the level of the fine for an organisation that has annual turnover of over £60m. #workplacesafety #workingatheight #charity
Read the full article here: https://www.shponline.co.uk/london-zoo-fined-after-keeper-fell-from-faulty-stepladder/