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The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the criminal prosecution of a company, for violation of the provisions of the Legislation on Occupational Safety and Health.
According to an official statement, as a result of this prosecution, the Nicosia District Court sentenced the company, which is active, among other things, in the execution of construction works, to a total fine of €1.200 for breaches relating to the Occupational Safety and Health Regulations which endangered persons at work.
Specifically, the company was convicted for failing to ensure the performance of work at height by means of appropriate equipment or collective protection mechanisms such as the use of appropriate scaffolding, handrails, work platforms or safety nets, or by providing appropriate means of access and using rigging or other safety devices with anchorage to prevent persons from falling from a height of up to approximately 40 metres.
He was also convicted of failing to install solid handrails at all floor edges and openings and in stairwells of sufficient height, at least 1.10 metres from the floor, with a parapet or other barrier at floor level of at least 0.15 metres high, a handrail and a horizontal element such that the distance between the handrail or other barrier and the handrail or other horizontal element does not exceed 0,45 metres, or failure to use other equivalent means to prevent the fall of persons working at a height of up to approximately 40 metres (on storeys).
In addition, the Court convicted the company for failing to install suitable and sufficient working floors within the elevator well and service ducts to prevent persons performing work on the floors from falling.
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