The Labour Inspection Department of the Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance promoted the prosecution of the companies "N.P.P. BETOMIX LMD" and "PETROS SAVVA CONSTRUCTIONS & DEVELOPENT LTD" for violating the provisions of the legislation on occupational safety and health issues.
As a result of this prosecution, the Nicosia District Court sentenced:
1. The company "N.P.P. BETOMIX LMD" engaged, inter alia, in the performance of ready-mixed cement mortar delivery operations, to a fine of €600 for the following breach of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Workplaces) Regulations which caused injury to one of its employees:
Failure to ensure that the scaffolding was safe and complied with the provisions of the applicable legislation before and throughout its use by an employee of its, including, but not limited to, by installing appropriate handrails and screens or other appropriate barriers on the scaffolding work platforms along their entire length, and by installing appropriate ladders for safe access to their work platforms, resulting in its employee falling from the scaffolding to the ground from a height of 5.90 metres and injuring him in various parts of his body.
2. The company "PETROS SAVVA CONSTRUCTIONS & DEVELOPENT LTD", which is active, inter alia, in the execution of construction works, to a total fine of €1.200 for the following violations of the Occupational Safety and Health (Minimum Standards for Temporary or Mobile Construction Sites) Regulations which caused injury to an employee of another company and endangered other persons at work:
(a) Failure to design, construct, install and maintain adequate scaffolding equipped with proper handrails, guardrails and stairways resulting in a fall and injury to an employee of another company.
(b) Failure to install solid handrails at floor ends in elevator shafts on the first and second floors and at floor ends on first and second floor porches of sufficient height, at least 1.10 meters from the floor, that have a parapet or other barrier at the floor level of at least 0,15 metres, 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 use other equivalent means to prevent persons working on the building from falling.
(NΓ/EXP)
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