Update on enforcement notices issued

04 January 2021

​October to December 2020

Prohibition Notices

Eleven immediate Prohibition Notices were served:

• five relating to unsafe work at height on construction sites
• three relating to unsafe access and egress to work at height on construction sites
• two relating to a failure to manage the risk of transmission of Coronavirus
• one relating to a failure to manage the risks arising from an excavation on a construction site 

Fig 1: Unsafe work at height 

Fig 2: Unsafe excavation

Improvement Notices

Six Improvement Notices were also served:

• two relating to failures to provide adequate welfare facilities to manage the risk of Coronavirus on construction sites
• two relating to a failure to guard crocodile shears in a scrap metal yard
• one relating to a failure to implement a contact tracing system in a food and drink premises
• one relating to a failure to manage the risk to existing gas fittings in construction work

Fig 3: Operational gas flue damaged during construction