Tulip Limited, a food manufacturing company, was fined by Norwich Crown Court for neglecting to assess risks at workplace, which resulted in serious injury to one of its employees.
In November 2007, Ludmila Jurkevica, an employee with the company’s Norfolk site, met with an accident when she was trying to clear the blockage from a Multivac packing machine, due to which she had three of her fingers crushed.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) took the company to the court where the firm pleaded guilty to violating Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. HSE said the machine on which the employee was working did not have the required safeguards necessary for preventing such accidents. The body also added that the company had not provided adequate training to the employee in order to prevent such an accident.
Tulip was ordered to pay a fine of 65,000 pounds and an additional 29,583 pounds as costs.
Commenting on the case, HSE Inspector Steven Gill said it is the sole responsibility of the company to properly assess the risks involved in the workplace and ensure that they are completely remedied. He was of the opinion that such risks are more necessary in places where machinery is being used.
Gill revealed that in the present case, Tulip had ignored its health and safety audits reports and this led to the present accident. He also advocated for the adequate training of employees in a language understood by them in order to ensure that such incidents do not recur.
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