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Fined for poor safety trainin
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Wincanton fined E 10,000 plus costs for health and safety training failures after roadside death of fitter
Logistics giant Wincanton has been fined ,E10,000 for a health and safety offence after a fitter died while repairing a truck on a motorway hard shoulder.
Michael Brookman was working underneath a broken-down artic alongside the M5 when another truck crashed into it, killing him on II August last year.
Gloucester magistrates heard that a Health and Safety Executive investigation exposed Wincanton's failure to give its workers sufficient safety and risk assessment training.
Wincanton admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act by failing to provide suitable information, sufficient training, and supervision to ensure the safety of employees while doing roadside repairs. The firm was also ordered to pay f 1,251 costs.
Edward Burgess, prosecuting, said the accident happened when Brookman was sent to repair a truck on the hard shoulder, three miles north of Michaelwood services on the MS in South Gloucestershire.
A truck driven by Alan Mottershead left the carriageway and collided with the truck that B rookman was working on.Mortershead was later jailed for causing death by dangerous driving after he fell asleep at the wheel.
Burgess told the magistrates that a Health and Safety investigation found that Wincanton had safety policies in place but did not do enough to ensure their employees knew about them.
In mitigation, Michael Bowes. appearing for Wincanton, told the magistrates: "We regret that we dropped below the standard required by health and safety legislation. But after a full investigation the prosecution accepts that there is no link between the company's failings and Mr Brookman's tragic death."