23 January 2023
October to December 2022
Prohibition Notices
Six immediate Prohibition Notices were served:
- three relating to a failure to properly maintain equipment at a swimming pool, which exposed users to the risk of injury
- one relating to a failure to follow a safe system of work whilst brake testing in a commercial vehicle workshop
- one relating to a failure to guard the dangerous parts of a mixer in a commercial kitchen
- one relating to a gas work carried out by an engineer without registration on the Gas Safe Register
Improvement Notices
Three Improvement Notices were served:
- failure to provide a suitable and sufficient written risk assessment surrounding the external gates at a school
- failure to conduct and record the findings of a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for a vehicle workshop
- failure to have suitable and sufficient management controls for non-routine operations on pipelines
One Improvement Notice was also served in October 2022 but inadvertently omitted from the previous quarterly report. This was served due to a failure to manage foreseeable and significant risks of violence and aggression to staff.