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Has there been many prosecutions for employers who have inducted site staff but failed to ensure they have actualy understood or agreed to comply with them due to language issues. its easy to get a signature on a site induction but harder to ensure its completly understood. I know CITB and others have varying site safety documents in multiple languages to get round this issue, but has this ever been a facor that has seen someone prosecuted.
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It probably wouldn't become an issue until someone got injured and a subsequent investigation identified this as being partly responsible. It is therefore possible that companies will have been prosecuted as a result of poor inductions, but it will only have been identified as a factor in the bigger picture of prosecution for the accident itself rather than as a stand alone reason.
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Recalling from memory some of the projections described in SHP and the like, I get the impression that poor/non-existent inductions may have been a FACTOR in a prosecution but once the case is done and dusted what is recorded is the specific regs that were broken not those factors. Identifying cases based on these might be difficult. Some like old cases in SHP or the IOSH magazine might be a place to start but it would be a long trawl I suspect to find them.
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I have come across instances where Risk assessments and SSOW were clearly not commuicated and therefore a bit suspect. At least one of the people supposed to have signed up as having read and understood did not read English, and another could not read.
It is definitley a problem but I cannot think of a prosecution directly linked to that as a factor. more likely to be bracketed togther with poor risk assessment and procedures.
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I have worked for a business that was prosecuted for this reason (would link to the HSE site but their media centre no longer goes back to 2017). Long story short, operative lost finger and a half when trapped cleaning a printing roller he should't have been cleaning. All documentation was in English and he didn's speak a word of it let alone read any. The process was that these would be translated by a native speaker of his language. Whilst they company could demonstarte that all the documents had been signed they could not demonstarte that they had been expleained sufficiently or that the operative fully understood them. The plead gulty and were fined £100k plus costs if I remember rightly. Whilst I was there I looked into having them professionally translated, the business would not pay. They clearly had not learnt their lesson, in my opinion. I hasten to add this was before my tenure at the business and I left after 5 months as the safety was that bad and there was no support from the owners of the business. My boss left 3 days after me! If you remember my posts around November 2017 regarding an unreported RIDDOR......yeah, it never got reported due to the fact that it was a similar situation, hence my walking from the business.
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