The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the criminal prosecution of the company "ANDREAS MAMAS ENGOLITIKI LTD" for violating the provisions of the Legislation on Occupational Safety and Health.
As a result of the prosecution, the Famagusta District Court sentenced the company "ANDREAS MAMAS CONSTRUCTION LTD", which is active, inter alia, in construction works, to a total fine of €20,000 for the following infringements 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 install solid handrails at the ends of a floor at a sufficient height, at least 1.10 metres from the floor, that have a parapet or other barrier at floor level at least 0.15 metres high, a handrail and a horizontal element such that the distance between the barrier or other obstacle and the handrail or other horizontal element does not exceed 0,45 metres or use other equivalent means to prevent persons from falling from a height which would result in an employee falling from a height of 10 metres during the work.
(b) Failure to immediately inform, in the most prompt and practical manner, the Famagusta District Labour Inspection Office about an accident that occurred to its employee which rendered him incapable of performing his work for more than three calendar days, excluding the day of the accident.
(b) Failure to immediately inform, in the most prompt and practical manner, the Famagusta District Labour Inspection Office about an accident that occurred to its employee which rendered him incapable of performing his work for more than three calendar days, excluding the day of the accident.
The Court also sentenced a person involved to a fine of €2,000 and a term of imprisonment of eight (8) months suspended for three years for the following breaches of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Workplaces) Regulations and the Occupational Safety and Health (Notification of Accidents and Dangerous Occurrences) Regulations:
(a) Failure to install solid handrails at the edges of floor floors of sufficient height.
(b) Failure to immediately inform, in the most expeditious and practical manner possible, the Famagusta District Labour Inspection Office of an accident involving an employer.
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