The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the criminal prosecution of the companies "LANDASCOLOUR LTD" and "HUBLOC CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT LTD" for violating the provisions of the legislation on safety and health at work.
As a result of this prosecution the Nicosia District Court sentenced:
1. The company "LANDASCOLOUR LTD" which is active, inter alia, in the manufacture and installation of hanging illuminated signs, to a fine of €3.000 for the following breaches of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Worksites) Regulations and the Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations which caused serious injury to one of its employees:
(a) Failure to use lifting platforms or other equipment or other equivalent means to prevent falls from height such as the use of rigging (safety belts) resulting in its employee, who was working at a point above the suspended ceiling of a building, losing his balance and falling from a height of approximately 5.50m to the floor of the building and being injured.
Failure to ensure that there would not be any alteration of the scene where the disclosable accident occurred in which her employer's employee was seriously injured, i.e., that the meander used as a work floor had been moved and the scene of the accident had been cleared.
2. The company "HUBLOC CONSTRUCTION & DEVELOPMENT LTD" engaged, inter alia, in the execution of construction works, to a total fine of €2.500 for the following infringements of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Construction Sites) Regulations and the Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations which caused serious injury to an employee of another company:
(a) Failure to use lifting platforms or other equipment or other equivalent means to prevent falls from height such as the use of harnesses (safety belts) resulting in an employee of another company losing his balance and falling from a height of approximately 5.50m to the floor of the building and being injured.
Failure to notify the Chief Inspector of the construction work undertaken and carried out by him.
[C] Failure to ensure that there would not be any alteration of the scene where the notifiable accident occurred in which an employee of another company was seriously injured, i.e., the mannequin used as a work floor had been moved and the scene of the accident had been cleared.
(BG/EXP)
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