The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance has promoted the prosecution of an employer who violated the provisions of the Legislation on Occupational Safety and Health.
As a result of the prosecution, the Famagusta District Court convicted an employer engaged, inter alia, in painting operations, to a total fine of €2500 and a sentence of 12 months' imprisonment suspended for three years for the following breaches of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Worksites) Regulations and the Occupational Safety and Health Laws which caused fatal injury to his employee and endangered his employees and other persons:
(a) Failure to provide and apply a safe work method, for painting work on the 1st floor of a building, resulting in his employee, who was on the balcony (veranda) of the 1st floor, falling from a height of 3.30 metres and fatally injured.
(b) Failure to determine the precautionary and protective measures to be taken, based on the written assessment of the risks present at work and specifically the carrying out of work at height for the painting of a two-storey house.
(b) Failure to determine the precautionary and protective measures to be taken, based on the written assessment of the risks present at work and specifically the carrying out of work at height for the painting of a two-storey house.
[C](c) Failure to install solid handrails at the edges of a 1st floor balcony (terrace) floor of a building with sufficient height, at least 1.10 metres from the floor, that have a screen 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 parapet or other barrier and the handrail or other horizontal element does not exceed 0,45 metres or the use of other equivalent means to prevent persons from falling from a height.
(MB/SX)
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