Sunday 10 January 2010

Dewhurst v. Coventry Corportation - due diligence and young workers

A bacon slicer was used by staff. A boy of 16 was employed. The boy had an accident. The company was prosecuted and convicted for a breach of section 18(1) of OSRPA, which requires 'no young person employed to work in a premises ... shall clean any machinery used ... if doins so exposes him to risk of injury from a moving part of that or any adjacent machinery'.

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