Posted By Delwynne try the search function on www.safetynews.co.uk.

Posted By Dave Wilson You will probably find that there are very few of these as it is the 'norm' that an employer gets prosecuted and very rarely an employee, unless there has been a total and deliberate disregard for safety. Most employee lapses which are serious are normally dealt with 'in-house' using the agreed company discipline process.

Posted By steven bentham HSE's web site does contain some for this, but I would question if by using this you will achieve any sort of compliance. Consider, what is the most likely offence one of yours will do this xmas? Not a HASAWA offence! Possibly a drink driving offence, with loss of license, prison, big fine, no further insurance and yet this remains a strong possibility for your employees in their personal time. Instead of legal responsibilites, try the affects of an accident will have on them, build in something more positive.

Posted By Chris Pope Mark I use the example of the 6 roadworkers spotted sitting on the back of a wheeled excavator to "assist" its lifting capacity - they were contravening the method statements issued by their employer (who was not prosecuted) Foreman £750 Digger driver £600 men £500 each + £80 costs each Just their luck that an HSE inspector happended to be driving past ... the load was 1.6 tonne , the digger rated at 675 kgs. More details in HSE's Site Safety News - free if you ask HSE books (this example in issue no 4 Nov 2002 There is also the site foreman who arranged for a carpenter to work out of a digger bucket on 12 Nov 2001. Fined £1500 crane driver fined £2000 for disconnecting the hoist limiter and nearly killing 2 engineers (Site safe news Autumn 99) Lift truck supervisor fined £300 injured while driving a forklift which he knew had faulty brakes (Safety Management British Safety Council publication Feb 2002)