The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the criminal prosecution of the company "CYFIELD DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC LTD" for violation of the provisions of the Legislation on Occupational Safety and Health.
As a result of this prosecution, the Nicosia District Court sentenced the company "CYFIELD DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC LTD", which is active, inter alia, in the execution of construction works, to a total fine of €1.200 for the following infringements of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Requirements for Temporary or Mobile Construction Sites) Regulations which endangered persons at work:
(a) Failure to ensure that work is carried out at height by means of suitable equipment or collective protection mechanisms such as the use of suitable scaffolding, handrails, work platforms or safety nets, or by providing suitable means of access and using rigging or other anchoring safety devices to prevent persons from falling from a height of approximately 40 metres or less.
(b) Failure to install solid handrails at all floor ends and openings and at stairways of sufficient height, at least 1,10 metres from the floor, having 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).
(d) Failure to install suitable and adequate working floors within the lift well and service ducts to prevent persons performing work on the floors from falling.
(OP/EXP)
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