HSE advice on where the responsibility lies Automated gate safety - HSE advice on where the responsibility lies Pictured after the Gate Safety Week seminar, Stuart Charles (centre) with DHF chairman Bob Perry (left) and DHF Powered Gate Group chairman Neil Sampson. Ensuring the safety of automated gates must be a shared responsibility between building professionals, according to Health & Safety Executive inspector Stuart Charles. Those involved at every stage of the design and development of a building have a duty to ensure automated gates are safe. These include developers, architects, contractors, landlords, maintenance companies and installers, he said. Stuart...
A Leicester company has been fined £3,300 for failing to install adequate guarding on an electric gate that trapped a young child at a primary school. Dudley Magistrates’ Court today heard that an eight-year-old boy was injured when his head became trapped between the edge of the closing gate and the gate post. The youngster suffered significant bruising to the right side of his head and ear. His father, who witnessed the incident, tried desperately to hold the gate to stop it closing further and managed to pull it open enough to release his son’s head. An investigation by the...
Salford Council fined for 'guillotine' gate that injured boy's hand
Staff opened the gate to let 10 children into the playground for the lunchtime break when the boy's left hand became trapped in the hinges
A council has been fined £20,000 after a six-year-old boy with learning difficulties lost three fingertips in a "guillotine effect" school gate.
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HSE
http://press.hse.gov.uk/2014/salford-council-prosecuted-after-child-loses-fingertips-in-school-gate/
BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-26888045
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