Workplace Report November 2017

Health & safety - HSE Monitor

Corporate manslaughter


Earlier this month, waste company Master Construction Products (Skips) became only the 26th company to be convicted under corporate manslaughter legislation thatcame into force in April 2008. 


The conviction followed the death of factory worker Safi Qais Khan in January 2015. He died after becoming entangled in a trommel machine used to sort waste material at the company’s recycling yard. 


The company was handed down a £255,000 fine.


The company’s sole director, Jagbir Singh, was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment, suspended for two years, and given 300 hours of community service. Singh was also disqualified from being a company director for eight years and ordered to pay £11,500 in prosecution costs.


Following the death, Singh put his company into liquidation.

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