president british precast andrew dix. bespoke precast – march 2009 steel beams ready for encasing...
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- PRESIDENT BRITISH PRECAST ANDREW DIX
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- Bespoke Precast March 2009 Steel Beams Ready for encasing in concrete.
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- Steel reinforcement welded to beams
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- During Production
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- Finished Product
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- 30 th March 2009 14:10PM
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- John Mott Married 47 Years of Age Worked for the Company and its predecessor for nearly 20 years
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- March 2011
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- From the Sheffield Star March 24 th 2011 Safety systems were inadequate at a South Yorkshire factory where a steelworker was crushed to death by a girder, an inquest heard. A nine-member jury recorded a narrative verdict of safety failings at the plant yesterday, just a week short of the second anniversary of the tragedy.
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- Sheffield Crown Court October 2012
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- On 12 th October 2012 Bespoke Precast was fined 100,000 and ordered to pay 42,471 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching Section 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
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- Bernard Thorogood defending apologised on behalf of Bespoke. "This was a company with a genuine and sincere record of health and safety. "It's not in any way a company in dereliction of its duty. "It was a significant oversight but not accurate to call the failure systematic." Imposing a fine of 100,000, judge Graham Robinson said Bespoke had failed to protect the safety of Mr Mott and fallen woefully short of what it ought to have done.
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- The real tragedy in this case is it is not a fly by night, penny- pinching company but quite the reverse. "In the context the company had a very good health and safety record and co-operated fully. "It is not a case where the defending business failed to heed previous warnings or traded safety for a financial motive."
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