<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Stay Legal with DDS (International) Limited</title><link>http://www.staylegal.net</link><description>Stay Legal News Feed</description><lastBuildDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:20:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><language>en-uk</language><item><title><![CDATA[Cheshire takeaway fined £24k for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=233</link><guid>news item:233</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:43:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Cheshire takeaway has been fined more than £24,000 for a number of breaches to fire safety regulations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[HMO landlord pays £20,000 for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=232</link><guid>news item:232</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:15:42 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The manager of a house in multiple occupation (HMO) has been ordered to pay more than £20,000 for breaching fire safety provisions of occupancy legislation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Furniture warehouse convicted after critical fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=231</link><guid>news item:231</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 13:11:28 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A furniture company has been ordered to pay more than £12,000 after pleading guilty to numerous breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supermarket giant failed to address slip risks]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=230</link><guid>news item:230</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:21:28 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Morrisons Supermarkets has been fined £17,500 after a worker fractured her elbow when she slipped at a store in Ipswich.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manchester landlords jailed for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=229</link><guid>news item:229</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:54:38 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two Manchester landlords have been jailed after their properties were deemed to have breached fire safety regulation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Preston landlord fined for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=228</link><guid>news item:228</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:51:49 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Preston landlord and his property development firm have been fined around £28,000 for breaching fire safety regulations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Norwich housing manager fined £18k for 'serious' fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=227</link><guid>news item:227</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The housing manager of a property above an Indian restaurant in Norwich has been fined for breaching fire safety regulations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laundry firm was warned over lifting and handling]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=226</link><guid>news item:226</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:36:11 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Battersea laundry firm has been fined after ignoring instructions to make it easier and safer for workers to move heavy loads.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commercial building owners fined for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=224</link><guid>news item:224</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:51:29 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A father and son have had to pay more than £30,000 after breaching fire safety legislation.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlords pay £27,500 for 'severe' fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=223</link><guid>news item:223</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:48:35 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two private residential landlords have been found guilty of breaching fire safety regulations and fined £23,000.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kent factory fined after worker suffers severe head injuries]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=222</link><guid>news item:222</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:02:38 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A cardboard box manufacturer in Kent has been fined after an incident in which a delivery driver suffered severe head injuries after a fall.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[High street retailer fined £1 Million for safety failings. Three contractors als]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=221</link><guid>news item:221</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 14:11:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marks and Spencer plc and three of its contractors have been fined for putting members of the public, staff and construction workers at risk of exposure to asbestos-containing materials during the refurbishment of two stores in Reading and Bournemouth.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspended prison sentence for building owner's fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=220</link><guid>news item:220</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:57:14 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A London building owner has been given a six month suspended prison sentence after being convicted of seven offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nightclub bosses fined for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=219</link><guid>news item:219</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:57:03 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two nightclub bosses have been fined after breaching fire safety legislation.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[£5,000 for hotel manager who failed to comply with enforcement notice]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=218</link><guid>news item:218</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:25:38 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A hotel manager has been ordered to pay £5,000 in fines and costs for failing to comply with an enforcement notice.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Developers fined for 'deathtrap' student accommodation block]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=217</link><guid>news item:217</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:23:47 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two housing developers in Manchester have had to pay more than £14,000 for risking the lives of their tenants in student accommodation described in court as a 'deathtrap.']]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire risk assessor and hotel manager jailed for fire safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=216</link><guid>news item:216</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:40:17 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An external fire risk assessor and a hotel manager have both been jailed for eight months for fire safety offences.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building managers fined £100,000 after failing to act on fire risk assessment]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=215</link><guid>news item:215</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 15:20:05 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The managing agent of a block of flats in London has been fined £100,000 and ordered to pay almost £13,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety law.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[B&B couple ordered to pay nearly £4,000 for blocking fire safety inspectors]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=213</link><guid>news item:213</guid><pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 10:28:59 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owners of a bed and breakfast in Gloucestershire have been fined for blocking fire safety inspectors from doing their jobs.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesco fined for failing to report accidents]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=212</link><guid>news item:212</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:40:30 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Supermarket Tesco was recently fined £48,000 for health and safety breaches after a successful prosecution by Bracknell Forest Council.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatal fire care home manager fined for fire safety breach ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=211</link><guid>news item:211</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:38:59 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The manager of a care home that was the scene of a fatal fire has been found guilty of a fire safety breach.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord pays £158,000 for breaches after tenants flee from blaze]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=210</link><guid>news item:210</guid><pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:35:19 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A residential landlord has been found guilty of fire safety breaches, following a fire where his tenants were forced to flee for their lives.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord pays £27,000 for breaches after tenants' lucky escape]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=209</link><guid>news item:209</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:46:25 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord has been ordered to pay £20,000 in fines after a fire caused his tenants to flee the property for their lives.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recycling firm pays out more than £60,000 in fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=208</link><guid>news item:208</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:38:45 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A waste recycling company has been fined £40,000 plus costs after pleading guilty to 16 breaches of the Fire Safety Order.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restaurateur given four-month suspended sentence for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=207</link><guid>news item:207</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:37:47 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owner of a restaurant in South Wales was handed a four month suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to 13 fire safety breaches.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[First company to be prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Ho]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=206</link><guid>news item:206</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:24:57 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The first company to be prosecuted under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2008, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, has been fined £385,000.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lancashire businessman in court after worker breaks back]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=205</link><guid>news item:205</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:53:41 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Lancashire businessman has been sentenced after one of his employees broke his back when he fell off a ladder.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poundland fined £20,000 for Portsmouth store safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=204</link><guid>news item:204</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:23:31 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A national budget retailer has been fined £20,000 for fire safety breaches in one of its stores.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two appear in court to face Penhallow Hotel charges]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=203</link><guid>news item:203</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:42:57 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A director and an administration manager of the company that owned the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay, where three people died in a fire in 2007, have appeared in court.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brewery ordered to pay £27,000 for serious fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=202</link><guid>news item:202</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 16:18:50 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A brewery has been ordered to pay £27,481 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation following a prosecution brought by the London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[MP Demands Manslaughter Probe into Sonae factory deaths]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=201</link><guid>news item:201</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:54:26 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[THE death of two workers on 7th December 2010, at a Merseyside factory, led to calls for a manslaughter probe by an MP.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hartlepool store fined for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=200</link><guid>news item:200</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 10:26:35 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A home wares store in Hartlepool has been fined for breaching fire safety regulations, em]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Builder fined after unsafe work on hospital]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=199</link><guid>news item:199</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:43:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A building contractor was fined along with the director of a surgical centre after safety inspectors found multiple failings on the site of a new clinic extension.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greggs fined £50,000 for breaching Fire Safety Order Regulations]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=198</link><guid>news item:198</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A national chain of bakers has been fined £50,000 after pleading guilty to serious breaches of Fire Safety Order regulations at one of its stores.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unsafe roof work led to fatal fall]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=197</link><guid>news item:197</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two companies from Cardiff and Surrey have been prosecuted today after a man fell to his death through a roof light.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[McDonald's fine after chemical eye injury]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=196</link><guid>news item:196</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:52:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fast food giant McDonald's has been taken to court recently by Wandsworth Council following an incident that left one of its employees half-blinded in one eye.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worker died on first day at work]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=195</link><guid>news item:195</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:12:14 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Newmarket retail display firm has been sentenced after an employee was crushed to death by a stack of glass he was unloading on his first day at work.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT sentenced following fatal ladder fall]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=194</link><guid>news item:194</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:51:45 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Communications company BT has been fined £300,000 following the death of a worker who fell from a ladder while carrying out installation works.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies and manager fined £440,000 after worker dies crushing aerosol ca]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=193</link><guid>news item:193</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:46:58 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two companies and a manager have been fined a total of £440,000 after a worker suffered 90 per cent burns and died, when the aerosol canisters he was crushing caught fire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middlesbrough restaurant gutted by fire]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=192</link><guid>news item:192</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:34:05 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Teeside diner has been gutted by fire, demonstrating the necessity for business owners and all Responsible Persons to carry out fire risk assessments.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Worker's lives put in danger at Manchester Karaoke bar]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=191</link><guid>news item:191</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 10:04:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owners of a new karaoke bar in Manchester risked the lives of workers and the public after a string of fire safety procedures were ignored during construction.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel group pays out £127,000 for 'substantial risks']]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=190</link><guid>news item:190</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:35:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A hotel group has paid out more than £127,000 after a judge ruled that guests at a 160-capacity luxury hotel in Cheshire had been put at 'substantial risk'.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imminent risk as HMO landlord served with prohibition order]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=189</link><guid>news item:189</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:12:17 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord of a house in multiple occupation has been served with an emergency prohibition notice for alleged major fire safety shortcomings, resulting in nine tenants being rehoused.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord fined £2,600 for not adhering to fire regulations]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=188</link><guid>news item:188</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:56:29 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord of a house in multiple occupation has been fined £2,600 for failing to adhere to regulations, including rules set out in Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord pleads guilty to fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=187</link><guid>news item:187</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:02:21 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The landlord of a north Yorkshire property has pleaded guilty to eight violations of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 at Scarborough Magistrates Court.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord fined after fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=186</link><guid>news item:186</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:59:26 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord has been fined after being found guilty of failing to install basic safety devices at a shared house he rented out to students.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Event organiser's fire safety fine reviewed]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=185</link><guid>news item:185</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:57:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Temporary events organisers are not exempt from complying with fire safety regulations as one individual found out after he was prosecuted for falling foul of rules.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brand new police lab under review following fire safety fears ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=184</link><guid>news item:184</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:43:45 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Managers at a newly built £23 million police forensics laboratory in Dundee are reviewing fire safety arrangements following concerns raised by staff working there.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dangerous lesson learned due to disabled smoke alarm]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=183</link><guid>news item:183</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:14:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The importance of properly maintaining fire alarms has been highlighted by a case in Sheffield.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poundstretcher fined £55,000 over fire escapes]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=182</link><guid>news item:182</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:12:13 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[National discount chain Poundstretcher Limited has been fined £51,500 and ordered to pay £3,450 costs at Leeds crown court for seven offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cement company fined after worker set on fire]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=181</link><guid>news item:181</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 11:22:00 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An international cement company has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) after a worker was set alight in an explosion.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employers warned about excessive noise following voice injury payout]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=180</link><guid>news item:180</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:53:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Employers are being warned to take into account the effect noise could have on employees, following a six-figure out-of-court settlement case. Former teacher, Joyce Walters, was recently awarded £145,000 by Hillingdon Council after developing a permanent voice injury brought on by speaking loudly over continuous noise.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company fined for endangering workers]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=179</link><guid>news item:179</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:06:14 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A pizza manufacturer in Hounslow has been prosecuted for endangering workers after ignoring calls to make safe an unprotected and dangerous first floor doorway.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wolverhampton flat fire leads to hospitalisation of three]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=178</link><guid>news item:178</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:59:47 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The importance of fire detection and alarm systems, which can prevent fatalities by warning people the moment a blaze starts, has been highlighted by an incident in the West Midlands.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Missing landlady brought to justice after fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=177</link><guid>news item:177</guid><pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 11:34:58 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A former landlady has finally been brought to justice for breaching fire regulations  after courts issued a warrant for her arrest.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flat blazes highlight importance of fire detection & alarm systems]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=176</link><guid>news item:176</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:45:42 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A man has died following a fire in a residential block of flats on Westmoreland Drive in Sutton, which was attended by crews from the London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire destroys Scottish care home residence]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=175</link><guid>news item:175</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:43:28 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Crews from Highlands & Islands Fire & Rescue Service have helped rescue elderly care home residents from a major fire that broke out at a nursing home in the Inverness area.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restaurateurs fined for fire safety violations]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=174</link><guid>news item:174</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:16:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owners of a restaurant in the south-west of England have been fined thousands of pounds for breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nursery School closed due to fire safety concerns]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=173</link><guid>news item:173</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:11:27 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Concerns over the safety of a nursery on the top floor of an eight-storey block of flats should a fire break out have resulted in the closure of the school, it has been reported.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construction firm fined after electric shock scars worker for life]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=172</link><guid>news item:172</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:29:31 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Kent-based construction and engineering company has been fined after an employee suffered severe burns when his jack hammer touched unexposed underground electricity cables.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel manager fined after alarm system failed in fire]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=171</link><guid>news item:171</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:16:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Magistrates have ordered a hotel manager to pay fines and costs totalling £5,355 after a detection and alarm system failed to activate in a fire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel group pays £127,000 after 'cavalier disregard' of fire safety]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=170</link><guid>news item:170</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A luxury hotel near Manchester has had to pay £127,000 for what a judge called a cavalier disregard for the safety of guests.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pub landlord receives heavy fine for fire safety violations]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=169</link><guid>news item:169</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:19:24 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Berkshire pub landlord has been slammed by local magistrates for putting the lives of his customers at risk by failing to carry out proper fire risk assessments on his premises.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penhallow hotel owners face charges under Fire Safety Order]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=168</link><guid>news item:168</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:04:18 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owners of the Penhallow Hotel in Newquay are to be prosecuted for offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies fined after man killed by toxic gas]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=166</link><guid>news item:166</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 10:30:10 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Crisp-maker Walkers Snack Foods Ltd and chemical distributor Omnichem Ltd have been fined a total of £350,000 after a worker was killed by a cloud of toxic gas.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Port authority and shipping company fined £185,000 after drowning.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=165</link><guid>news item:165</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:04:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Sussex port and an Italian shipping company have today been fined a total of £185,000 for health and safety failings after a worker drowned at Newhaven Docks.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Textile company fined after worker's arm crushed in roll of fabric]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=164</link><guid>news item:164</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:54:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A fabric manufacturer has been fined after a worker's arm was so badly crushed he had to have metal plates inserted to help support his broken bones.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construction giant fined £160k after man falls to his death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=163</link><guid>news item:163</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:31:56 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A major construction firm has been fined £160,000 after a labourer fell to his death while building Premier League side Everton FC's new training academy.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hospital fire leads to evacuation and extensive damage]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=162</link><guid>news item:162</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:10:18 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A fire that led to the evacuation of patients and staff at Ninewells hospital in Dundee is believed to have been caused by a faulty light fitting.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[HMO landlord pays £16,000 for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=161</link><guid>news item:161</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:37:37 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord has been ordered to pay over £16,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety legislation following a prosecution brought by the London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel company found guilty of ten offences ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=160</link><guid>news item:160</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:34:39 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A hotel company and its chief executive have been found guilty of ten offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Glass company fined for workers' fall risk]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=159</link><guid>news item:159</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:36:59 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A glass company has been prosecuted for health and safety offences after putting workers' lives at risk at a site in Bradford.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company fined after 17-year-old worker injured in fall]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=158</link><guid>news item:158</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:17:22 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Croydon company has been fined after a young worker suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries when he fell through a roof-light after only weeks into his job.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disaster prevented by fire safety equipment]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=157</link><guid>news item:157</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:53:28 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fire safety equipment helped to prevent a "catastrophe" at a store in Ilkeston, it has been claimed.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man faces jail over fire safety regulation compliance]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=156</link><guid>news item:156</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:50:31 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A company director has been warned he could be jailed for flouting a court order relating to fire safety regulation compliance.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mums-to-be evacuated after fire alarm sounds warning]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=155</link><guid>news item:155</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:47:15 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The importance of an adequate fire alarm system has been highlighted by the evacuation of a Coventry hospital ward.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worker dies during demolition at boarding school]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=154</link><guid>news item:154</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:19:00 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Shropshire boarding school has today been fined £25,000 after a worker was killed while demolishing a building on the site.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man faces jail over fire safety regulation compliance]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=153</link><guid>news item:153</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:28:25 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A company director has been warned he could be jailed for flouting a court order relating to fire safety regulation compliance]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company heads prosecuted over hydraulic press injury]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=152</link><guid>news item:152</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:17:56 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two Leeds-based company directors have been prosecuted after an employee had his fingers crushed in a hydraulic press.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worker Loses Fingers In Between Metal Rollers]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=139</link><guid>news item:139</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:30:46 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Tyneside firm has today been fined £8,000 after a workers hand was badly injured when it was drawn between two rotating metal rollers.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Onion firm fined after serious ladder injury]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=138</link><guid>news item:138</guid><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:45:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Spalding onion packing firm has been fined after a worker broke his shoulder falling from a ladder.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worker suffers life-changing injuries after roof fall]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=137</link><guid>news item:137</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:29:32 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A construction worker from Carmarthen suffered life-changing injuries when he fell three metres from the roof of a farm building a court heard today.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restaurant owner fined for ten breaches of Fire Safety Order  09 August 2010 ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=136</link><guid>news item:136</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:20:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A restaurant owner has been fined £15,000 for ten breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 following a serious fire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maintenance job leaves man with a broken back.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=135</link><guid>news item:135</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:27:59 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Staffordshire company has been fined £8,000 after one of its workers fell more than two metres from a scaffold tower, fracturing one vertebra, crushing another and leaving him immobilised for more than six weeks.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distribution company's failures led to Cornish vineyard owner's death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=134</link><guid>news item:134</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:23:57 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owner of a Cornish vineyard died after a delivery of empty wine bottles crashed onto him when they fell from the tail lift of a lorry he was helping to unload.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Architects and construction firm fined after worker falls nine metres to his dea]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=133</link><guid>news item:133</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:05:59 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An architect's practice and a construction company involved in a Somerset development have today been fined a total of £195,000 following a fatality on the site.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Companies and a Director prosecuted for fire safety breaches in HMO.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=132</link><guid>news item:132</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:19:51 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Camden Council recently prosecuted two companies and their director for managing a house which posed a serious fire risk to its tenants and fined them more than £32,000. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two landlords fined of £4,000 each for fire safety offences.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=131</link><guid>news item:131</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:07:52 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two landlords were sentenced to a fine of £4,000 each and ordered to pay £8,000 costs at Taunton Crown Court.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Southampton Landlord fined £25,000 for Fire Safety breaches.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=130</link><guid>news item:130</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:00:38 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord of a house of multiple occupation (HMO) was ordered to pay fines and costs of £25,000 after pleading guilty to seven charges relating to inadequate fire safety standards.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malfax Investments Ltd admit six offences under the Fire Safety Order.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=129</link><guid>news item:129</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:54:23 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Malfax Investments Ltd admitted six offences under the Fire Safety Order and was ordered to pay over £21,000 in fines and costs following a prosecution brought by the London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Co-operative Group fined £210,000 for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=128</link><guid>news item:128</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 09:48:40 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Co-operative Group was fined £210,000 and ordered to pay costs of more than £28,000 after pleading guilty to six breaches of the Fire Safety Order.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleaner's crush death prompts £140,000 fine]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=127</link><guid>news item:127</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:23:46 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Rochdale plastics manufacturer has been fined £140,000 after a Portuguese cleaner was crushed to death by a pallet of bags weighing nearly one and a half tonnes.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company fined after worker hit by fork-lift truck]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=126</link><guid>news item:126</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 11:11:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A company has been prosecuted for health and safety failings after an employee was struck by a reversing fork-lift truck at its depot in Stevenage.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comet group prosecuted following death of worker in Wrexham]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=125</link><guid>news item:125</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:46:14 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Major electrical retailer Comet Group plc has been fined £75,000 following the death of a contractor who fell through a roof light at its Wrexham store.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses urged to revisit fire safety obligations following New Look case]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=124</link><guid>news item:124</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:22:18 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Businesses must take a fresh look at their fire safety obligations after a £400,000 fine imposed on fashion retailer, New Look, was recently upheld by the Court of Appeal, a law firm has warned. Shoosmiths says that following the judgment companies will now ignore fire safety regulations at their peril. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construction company's health and safety fine increased eight-fold]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=123</link><guid>news item:123</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:16:27 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Scottish judges have substantially increased a fine payable by a construction company convicted last year of health and safety offences. Construction firm Discovery Homes (Scotland) Ltd were originally fined £5,000 following the death of Polish worker, Andrezej Freitag, in 2008 but now have to pay eight times the amount. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company and directors fined after member of public's death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=122</link><guid>news item:122</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:05:36 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Brighton-based construction company and two of its directors have been fined a total of £75,000 following the death of a member of the public at one of its building sites.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[East Ayrshire council fined £56,000 following death of worker]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=121</link><guid>news item:121</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 14:19:27 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An electrician employed by East Ayrshire Council died because of failings of his employer, a court heard.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bakery directors fined after staff exposed to risk of electrocution and irritant]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=119</link><guid>news item:119</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:23:40 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The directors of a Bedfordshire bakery have been fined after a series of health and safety breaches exposed staff to serious danger - including electrocution and exposure to flour dust.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ 21-year-old employee killed after firm's failings]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=118</link><guid>news item:118</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:29:38 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A West Sussex-based company, Flowserve (GB) Ltd, was fined £150,000 today (4 June 2010) at Lewes Crown Court following the death of a 21-year-old employee.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Roofers fined £200 each for working dangerously at height]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=117</link><guid>news item:117</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:26:20 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two self-employed roofers have been fined today (7th June 2010) at Chippenham Magistrates Courts for failing to take appropriate safety precautions when working on a private building in Wiltshire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ American Airlines fined after ground worker loses leg]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=116</link><guid>news item:116</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:12:02 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[American Airlines has today (4th June 2010) been fined £70,000 after one of its workers had to have his leg amputated following an incident at Heathrow Airport.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel prosecuted following serious fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=113</link><guid>news item:113</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 13:38:49 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The owner and general manager of The Park Hotel in Leicester has this week been handed down fines and costs totalling £40,000 for ten serious breaches of fire safety regulations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Food firm sentenced after worker's finger severed]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=112</link><guid>news item:112</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:31:51 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The employers of a man whose hand was severely injured on a poorly-guarded spice mixing machine were sentenced today.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Employer without compulsory insurance fined]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=111</link><guid>news item:111</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:32:57 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[An Essex car wash owner who failed to purchase compulsory insurance to protect his employees was fined yesterday.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Sign workers injured after scaffold collapse]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=110</link><guid>news item:110</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:30:48 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A County Durham man has been successfully prosecuted after he injured himself and another person when repairing a sign over eight metres from the ground.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company boss ordered to pay £130,000 for fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=109</link><guid>news item:109</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A business owner has been fined £80,000 and ordered to pay Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service over £50,000 in costs after pleading guilty to serious breaches of fire safety legislation.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[KFC to pay out £19,000 over hygiene breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=108</link><guid>news item:108</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 14:28:58 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has been ordered to pay £19,000 after flies, a cockroach and a mouse were found in one of its West End branches]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to landlords after HMO cooking fire]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=107</link><guid>news item:107</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:11:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Devon and Somerset Fire & Rescue Service has reminded landlords and owners of rented accommodation of their legal responsibilities after a fatal fire last month at a residential property in Teignmouth.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community service sentence for fire safety breach landlord]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=106</link><guid>news item:106</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 18:09:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord who pleaded guilty to five offences under fire safety legislation has been ordered to carry out 120 hours of unpaid community service.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord jailed over near-fatal bedsit blaze ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=105</link><guid>news item:105</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:53:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Suffolk landlord has been jailed for two-and-a-half years after a tenant was practically baked alive in a fire at one of his properties in Norwich.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Co-operative group fined £210,000 over fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=104</link><guid>news item:104</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:52:15 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Co-operative Group was this week fined over £200,000 after pleading guilty in Southampton Crown Court to serious fire safety breaches at its store in Shirley Road, Southampton]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet factory fined for machine death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=103</link><guid>news item:103</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:07:48 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The UK's largest confectionery firm has been fined a total of £300,000 after an employee was crushed to death in one of its sweet-making machines.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corus fined £240,000 after lorry driver crushed]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=102</link><guid>news item:102</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:50:16 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Multinational steel maker, Corus, has been fined £240,000 after a lorry driver was crushed to death at its site in Staffordshire.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Biffa ordered to pay £330,000 over member of public death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=101</link><guid>news item:101</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:40:27 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Biffa Waste Services Ltd has been fined after a member of the public was crushed to death.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarter have never experienced a full fire drill at work]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=100</link><guid>news item:100</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:34:37 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[New research has found that a quarter of workers have never participated in a full fire evacuation of their workplace, despite government guidelines suggesting full drills be undertaken at least once a year.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms of Disability Discrimination Act redefined]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=99</link><guid>news item:99</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:22:42 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The House of Lords has redefined the terms of the Disability Discrimination Act as a result of a decade-long employment case, it has been reported.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scottish companies that cause death to have finances probed]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=98</link><guid>news item:98</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:16:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Scottish companies found guilty of causing workplace deaths will no longer be able to avoid fines by 'claiming poverty', under a proposed new Bill amendment in Scotland.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tesco pays £119,000 fine for fire safety law breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=97</link><guid>news item:97</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:29:36 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Supermarket giant Tesco has been fined £95,000 and ordered to pay over £24,000 in costs after pleading guilty to five breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO)]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Five-year ban for director after raft of health and safety breaches.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=96</link><guid>news item:96</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:42:36 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A director of a fuel tank manufacturing business has been banned from directing any company for five years after breaching a raft of health and safety regulations.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Nationwide construction firm fined for multiple health and safety failings.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=95</link><guid>news item:95</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:35:49 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Lancashire-based construction company has been fined for a series of safety breaches, including failing to fence off building sites from the public and failing to provide adequate welfare facilities for their workers.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Factory boss fined after worker falls through roof.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=94</link><guid>news item:94</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:31:48 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A director of a manufacturing company has been fined for health and safety breaches after an employee fell through a roof at a site in Cradley Heath.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Aberdeenshire man fined after employee fell from roof.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=93</link><guid>news item:93</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:23:26 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A sole trader who erects farms buildings has today (21/04/10) been fined £15,000 after his employee broke both his legs when he fell three metres from the roof of an Aberdeenshire farm building]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheffield landlord fined for exposing tenants to gas dangers]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=0</link><guid>news item:0</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:00:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Sheffield landlord who failed to ensure gas appliances at a property he rented out were safe and fit for purpose was today prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[£200,000 fine after Kent worker falls to his death]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=91</link><guid>news item:91</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:56:37 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A plant hire company has been fined £200,000 for health and safety failings that lead to an employee falling five metres to his death.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ten rescued following Newry arson.]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=90</link><guid>news item:90</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:34:47 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ten people, including two children, have been rescued from flats after an arson attack on a bookmaker's shop beneath in Newry.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel fined £15,000 for six breaches of fire safety law]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=89</link><guid>news item:89</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:12:18 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Surrey hotel with no working fire alarm and disabled self-closures on fire doors has been fined £15,000 and ordered to pay costs of £4,800.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord, tenant and restaurant manager convicted of fire safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=88</link><guid>news item:88</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:06:19 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The landlord, tenant and manager of a Chinese restaurant have together had to pay more than £26,000 at Guildford Crown Court for breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care home fined £5,000 over Legionnaires' risk]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=87</link><guid>news item:87</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:08:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A care home company has been fined £5,000 for failing to have the required precautions in place to control legionella bacteria.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[TV documentary used to convict firm of health and safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=86</link><guid>news item:86</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:04:16 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Footage filmed for a TV documentary about medics has been used to help secure a conviction against a company carrying out construction work after the death of a 25-year-old.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warning to businesses over guard-rails after worker breaks spine]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=85</link><guid>news item:85</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:00:10 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Black Country waste management firm has been fined £12,000 after a guard-rail gave way, resulting in a worker falling nearly three metres, narrowly missing a crushing machine]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine for Royal Mail worker death reduced due to financial difficulties]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=84</link><guid>news item:84</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:47:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Royal Mail has been fined £90,000 and ordered to pay costs of £42,000 this week, following the death in 2006 of an employee.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel company convicted of fire safety offences ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=75</link><guid>news item:75</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:03:22 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A company that owned a London hotel has been ordered to pay more than £21,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to six offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm fined £185k after worker crushed by truck]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=73</link><guid>news item:73</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:59:17 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A major construction company has been fined £185,000 for failing to separate vehicles from pedestrians on a building site in Lancashire.
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+0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A waste disposal company has been charged with breaching health and safety legislation after a member of the public was killed at the Civic Amenity Site in Newbury.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bin mans death leads to £130,000 fine for company]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=67</link><guid>news item:67</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A refuse company has today been fined £130,000 after a worker was killed near Aylesbury when a 1,100-litre recycling bin fell on his head.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chippenham pub firm fined over fire safety breach]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=66</link><guid>news item:66</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 09:30:09 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A pub management company has been convicted of fire safety breaches at North Wiltshire Magistrates Court today. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[40 people killed last year through workplace falls]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=65</link><guid>news item:65</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:31:39 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Slip, trip and fall incidents in the workplace cost 40 workers their lives last year and cost society an estimated £800 million each year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned as it launched a new campaign.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mental health charity fined after death of support worker]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=64</link><guid>news item:64</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:52:53 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mental Health Matters Ltd, a North East-based registered charity has been fined £30,000 with costs of £20,000 after one of their employees was killed by a service user.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haulage company fined for massive fire risk]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=63</link><guid>news item:63</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:36:25 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Leicester haulage company has been prosecuted for creating a massive fire risk by illegally storing huge quantities of highly flammable aerosols.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses failing to conform with fire legislation]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=62</link><guid>news item:62</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:30:13 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Forty percent of businesses are failing to conduct fire risk assessments in accordance with legislation implemented three years ago, warns Aviva Risk Management Solutions (ARMS).]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two jailed for manslaughter for deaths of Sussex firefighters]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=61</link><guid>news item:61</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:24:28 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A father and son have been jailed for manslaughter following an explosion at a fireworks factory in which two fire fighters lost their lives.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bollywoods owner fined £40,000 over fire safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=60</link><guid>news item:60</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:36:43 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A HERTFORDSHIRE restaurant owner has been fined £40,000 after being convicted of fire safety offences.




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The fire began in a deep fat fryer in the Chilli China restaurant in the Akropolis shopping mall on Tuesday, 6th October.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Director warned he 'cannot hide behind organisation' after fatal accident]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=43</link><guid>news item:43</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:13:24 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Company directors are being reminded they must take their responsibilities for health and safety seriously and not "hide behind the organisation" following the case of a director of a pet food company who has been fined £10,000 for breaches of health and safety law after a worker was crushed to death.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two More Imprisoned for Breaching Fire Safety Order]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=42</link><guid>news item:42</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:27:55 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two landlords from Haringey, London were sentenced to 6 months in prison and ordered to pay £5000 costs each following a successful prosecution by the London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pupil lost fingers in art accident]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=41</link><guid>news item:41</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:56:17 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A school has been ordered to pay £19,000 after a 16-year-old girl lost most of her fingers when she put her hands in a bucket of plaster of Paris during a school art lesson.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses urged to take proper precautions after worker fractures skull in four]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=40</link><guid>news item:40</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:18:27 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Businesses are being warned to take correct precautions when their staff work at height, after a roofer sustained serious head injuries when he fell nearly four metres through a roof he was working on.
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]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Company fined after employee dies from serious head injuries at work]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=37</link><guid>news item:37</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:29:44 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is urging companies to implement and maintain safe systems of work and to offer full training to staff to ensure that the health and safety of employees is not put at risk. ]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheltenham Borough Council fined £14,000 after ride on mower incident ]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=36</link><guid>news item:36</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:26:10 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning that care needs to be taken when using ride-on mowing machines following a court prosecution of an employer.
]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blackpool FC fined £8000 for failing to comply with an Improvement Notice]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=35</link><guid>news item:35</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:47:08 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In February 2009, environmental health officers (EHOs) from Blackpool Council carried out a routine safety inspection at the football clubs Bloomfield Road stadium. 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The notices relate to Marie Curie House, which is next door to Lakanal House where six people died in a fire in July, and Castlemead and Perronet  two other blocks in the borough.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tower block father's fury at council's fire safety breaches]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=29</link><guid>news item:29</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:58:35 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The father of one of the Camberwell tower block fire victims today called for "justice to be done" after details emerged of fire regulation breaches by Southwark council]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[HSE warns schools after pupil is injured on work experience]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=27</link><guid>news item:27</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:35:12 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Schools across the West Midlands are being warned to make sure that full health and safety checks are carried out before pupils head out on work experience, following the prosecution of a Stafford company.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[HMO owner fined £7000 for serious nature of offences under the RRO]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=26</link><guid>news item:26</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:09:40 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This prosecution was in relation to premises in Accrington, Lancashire, and came about as a result of a complaint received from the Police]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Church pleads guilty to fire safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=25</link><guid>news item:25</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:07:48 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A church organisation has been ordered to pay £30,000 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to breaches of fire safety legislation following a prosecution brought by London Fire Brigade.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hotel Prosecution]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=24</link><guid>news item:24</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:55:37 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A HOTEL OWNER has received a nine-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, with 180 hours of unpaid work for the community, after pleading guilty to seven breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kent Landlord Fined Over Fire Safety Failures]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=23</link><guid>news item:23</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:20:32 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A landlord has been fined £1,550 for failing to ensure his property was fire safe]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shell pays £345,000 in record FSO fine]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=22</link><guid>news item:22</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:04:43 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In what is the largest penalty under the legislation to date, Shell International Ltd has been fined £300,000 and ordered to pay £45,000 costs after pleading guilty to breaches of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order at its UK headquarters in central London.
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Central Recycling  based in Widnes - were fined £20,000 after pleading guilty to five fire safety offences.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Landlord punished for breaching Fire Safety rules]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=17</link><guid>news item:17</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:36:35 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A Yorkshire landlord has been fined £10,000, and ordered to pay £1,185 in costs, by Scarborough magistrates after pleading guilty to breaking fire safety laws.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help is on hand for the hospitality industry]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=16</link><guid>news item:16</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 16:00:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The government has continued with its campaign to make Great Britain a safer place by offering new guidance to owners of small hotels, B&Bs and guest houses. The new document helps ensure that the above businesses comply with the current fire safety laws.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why take the risk?]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=15</link><guid>news item:15</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:52:16 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Every day the newspapers are full of depressing stories. We wake up, scan our daily edition and read the news that something bad has happened. The piece of news we are about to bring to your attention is harrowing but it couldve been avoided. Please read on...]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[IOSH Certificate Presentation]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=14</link><guid>news item:14</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:30:07 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Delegates from Peel Ports Medway received a pleasant surprise last week when former Gillingham favourite Ian Cox was on hand to present them with their training certificates, after they attended a course provided by the Swale based company Due Diligence Solutions.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty for ignoring enforcement advice]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=13</link><guid>news item:13</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:01:24 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It really does not pay to ignore enforcement notices as one hairdressing salon in London recently found out, after failing to deal with the requirements of an enforcement notice service under the Fire Safety Order 2005, resulting in fines and costs of £4,000.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[£17,000 fine for fire safety offences]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=12</link><guid>news item:12</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:35:34 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Property company P.T.F Properties was successfully prosecuted by London Fire and Rescue Service after pleading guilty to four fire safety breaches, resulting in £17,000 fines and costs by West London Magistrates Court.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire safety training just got a whole lot more enjoyable!]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=11</link><guid>news item:11</guid><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:03:05 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here at Due Diligence Solutions we like to set the standards and show excellence throughout our business. Our trainers are all industry leading experts and we have just invested in a fantastic state-of-the-art new fire training kit to make the important element of learning even more FUN!]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Health & Safety DVDs now launched]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=5</link><guid>news item:5</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:02:33 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Due Diligence Solutions have launched a new range of health & safety DVD's, covering health & safety in the workplace, health & safety induction, health & safety in retail and musculoskeletal disorders.]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Legislation live on April 6th]]></title><link>http://www.staylegal.net/newsitem.php?id=4</link><guid>news item:4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:52:18 +0000</pubDate><description><![CDATA[As you may have read, the 6th of April 2008 saw the introduction of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, placing further focus on organisations and in particular senior management and company directors.]]></description></item><atom:link href="http:///rss/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /></channel></rss>
