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The Licensing Sub Committee of Northampton Borough Council lately decided to close the evaluation of the licence of the Pub, Lava and Ignite, where two students aged 22 and 19 years met with a fatal accident few days ago. The victims Nabila Nanfuka and Laurene Danielle Jackson died due to crushing.

The Chair of the Council Licensing Committee, Councillor Christopher Malpas, spoke after the trials. He stated that the Managers and Executives of Luminar gave the guarantee to the committee that they will not restore the licence to the pub Lava and Ignite in Northampton. Hence, without the licence the sub committee had nothing to mull over in the meeting.

He said that the Northamptonshire Police are inspecting the conditions that led to the accident. The Northampton Borough Council will keep on providing help in whatever way possible and do their best to learn some health and safety lessons from this accident.

Tom Davies is the Chief Inspector Detective who is part of the East Midlands Special Operations Unit, Major Crime that is directing this inspection. He recently asserted that about a hundred people, who were at the scene of the accident, have come forward to provide details of what happened that evening. Therefore, the team is very grateful to those people.

He also added that since many more people were present that evening, the team would like to know about their experiences. All the versions of that evening will contribute to recreate the scenario that will help to realise as to what led to the accident. The team is working persistently with as well as providing support to the victims’ families.

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There has been more attention being paid by the government ways to deal with employers who are in a power to gain control. This is to with the help of visas that enable the newcomers to be more informed. These were the two findings of a recently published paper dealing with forced labour.

This has been written by people working at both the universities of Leeds and Salford and granted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. It is published under the name of Forced labour and UK immigration policy: status matters?’ and has inferences to the latest research and interviews conducted with experts at several places such as TUC, Gangmasters Licensing Authority and International Labour Organisation. Its main purpose is to go and find out the main relation that exists between the immigration status and susceptibility to forced labour in UK.

The paper has found out that there is a multifaceted scheme of immigration status and immigration policy, which makes people who are new entrants to the country more prone to being exploited in the labour market. Most of the time, immigrants are persuaded into these vulnerable positions as they are not sure of the visa status that they hold as well as do not have adequate amounts of information.

The lead author Peter Dwyer, The University of Salford – Social Policy Professor, went on to say that, there is a greater intricacy between potential immigration status and migrants’ eligiblity to work, live and have support in the UK. This can bring on plenty of occasions to avoid being exploited by unethical employers.

The other author, Dr Louise Waite, from the University of Leeds added said that one of the ways to avoid this is to ensure that immigrants are able to complain to the Employment Tribunal if need be. This will empower them and allow them privy to the right information that they can use and escape from being exploited.

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development is the professional body for those involved in the management and development of people. Workplace Law run CIPD courses throughout the UK; training towards a CIPD Certificate, which will provide a firm foundation in all the areas of HR and employment law.

In a case of violation of safety regulations, HSE prosecuted Moor Park Charitable Trust Ltd, which runs a Moor Park boarding school at Shropshire, after one of the workers died while demolishing a building on August 14, 2007.

An enquiry by the HSE found that the workers entrusted with the task of demolishing a wooden classroom did not have any relevant experience or training. Without any proper safety measures and guidance, they tried to remove the support that held the classroom structure. It ultimately led to collapse of roof while five workers were inside. Fortunately, the four workers did not receive any serious injury because of the presence of dumper parked inside the building premises, but forty-year-old Mark Evans from Ludlow choked when the 2.4 tonnes weight of the roof fell on him.

In this case, the school was fully responsible for the tragedy, because it failed to abide by the safety norms, and gave the charge of carrying out demolition work to an inept building worker, Mr Christopher Morris, who was involved in minor construction work in that place. He arranged four other self-employed construction workers to help him with the demolition work. Before the work could begin, the school did not even care to find out if thee men were competent enough to handle such a risky task.

Moor Park School had violated the Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.After hearing the case, Shrewsbury Crown Court imposed a fine of £25,000 and £15,000 additional costs of prosecution.

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The Health and Social executive is actively investigating and ensuring workplace safety. It is also investigating workplace injuries and ensuring that justice is delivered to the injured parties.

Recently it sued the Dura Automotive Body and Glass Systems of Birmingham , UK after one of its employees was injured on the work premises. The employee, Michael Brewer was attempting to repair a fully automated manufacturing robot when he was injured. This robot was placed in a place specially dedicated to it ,within a solid enclosure.

Viewing the work cycle of the robot was not possible without entering the enclosure. And this is precisely what Mr. Brewer did. During this process the machine struck Mr. Brewer. He was left paralyzed below and his voice box was also damaged. This accident incapacitated Mr. Brewer’s ability to work.

A case was filed against the Dura Automotive Body and Glass Systems by the HSE. In the investigation conducted, the way in which Mr. Brewer contracted his injury was found. The company had not adequately assessed the risk the employees would face in the operation of the industrial robot. Accessing the machine required it to be put into the manual mode rather than the fully automatic mode. The fact that the robot would require regular maintenance for which its work cycle would have to be observed was not considered by the company.

This incident that took place on 6 May 2008 exposed the high risk the company was exposing its employees to. The Birmingham Crown Court conducted the trial of the case HSE filed against Dura. The court placed a fine of £30, 000 on the company and ordered it to pay £20,000 as costs.

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