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A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a seven-year-old child became trapped and suffocated on a construction site.

Seven-year-old Conley Thompson went missing from home on the morning of 26 July 2015 and was found the next morning by workers at the construction site at Bank End Road, Worsborough, in South Yorkshire.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that Conley had become trapped in a drainage pipe, which had been fixed into the ground in preparation for the installation of fencing posts. Tragically, he had suffocated before being found the next morning when work restarted on site.

Howard Civil Engineering Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching regulation 13(4)(b) of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and to breaching Section 3 (1) of the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The company was fined £600K and ordered to pay £42,952.88 in costs at Sheffield Crown Court on 4 August 2022.

The construction site was a new-build housing development next to an existing housing estate and adjacent to busy pedestrian footpaths and roads. HSE found that there was insufficient fencing in place to prevent unauthorised persons from accessing the construction site due to a combination of poor planning, management and monitoring of the site and its perimeter.

Speaking after the hearing, HSE Inspector Paul Yeadon said: “Conley should never have been able to be on that site. He should have been kept out.

“The construction industry should be aware of the dangers of construction sites to members of the public and any other unauthorised persons.

“The dangers to children gaining access to construction sites and treating them like a playground is an ongoing problem which must be addressed at all types of sites no matter what their complexity or size.

“The industry must do all it can to ensure children can’t access construction sites and be exposed to the inherent risks they present to prevent further tragedies like this from occurring.”

 

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At Listen Up you will have access to a wide variety of hearing and noise control expertise in one place. A unique opportunity to have access to the latest information, advice and strategies. Explore the innovative services and solutions our exhibitors can provide to help you protect the workforce. Together we can make a real difference, and bring to an end the escalating worldwide epidemic of noise induced hearing loss.

The full programme

NHCA: Gayla L. Poling, Ph.D.

A View from the regulator: Chris Steel, Principal Specialist Inspector (Noise & Vibration), Health and Safety Executive

What happens when we don’t protect people: Kevin Bampton, CEO, BOHS

Design and room acoustics for health wellbeing and inclusivity: A discussion between: Andrea Harman, Concept Developer, Saint-Gobain Ecophon & Dr Vanessa Champion, Director, Journal of Biophilic Design

Emerging science on hearing health harm from noise: Chris Plack, Ellis Llwyd Jones Professor of Audiology, The University of Manchester

Has noise risk reduction failed: Workshop: Peter Wilson, Technical Director, Industrial Noise and Vibration, David Greenberg (EAVE), and Rob Shepheard (Consultant Audiologist)

The psychology of success in hearing conservation: Dr Samuel Couth, Lecturer, University of Manchester

“Send three & fourpence we are going to a dance”: Noise and hearing protection in a military environment: Neal Hill, One plus One Consulting Ltd

Sound exposure away from work – how do we protect hearing for life: Dr Ian Wiggins, Senior Research Fellow, University of Nottingham

The Human Response to sound in the environment: Lisa R Lavia, Noise Abatement Society

New tools, metrics and outreach to increase the effectiveness of hearing loss prevention initiatives: Thais C. Morata, Ph.D., Senior Research Audiologist, Director, Safe-in-Sound Awards, Senior Research Audiologist, Director, Safe-in-Sound Awards

Who will benefit from attending Listen Up?

Employers, particularly from high risk noise industries e.g. construction, defence, utilities, manufacturing, oil and gas or music and entertainment
Anyone actively involved in hearing conservation such as; health and safety professionals, occupational hygienists, occupational health nurses and physicians, audiologists, scientists, engineers and acousticians
Insurers and litigation experts
Educators

What will you learn?

At Listen Up you will have access to a wide variety of hearing and noise control expertise in one place
The unique opportunity to benefit from the latest information, advice and strategies
Explore the innovative services and solutions our exhibitors can provide to help you protect the workforce
Together we can make a real difference, and bring to an end the escalating worldwide epidemic of noise induced hearing loss

Registration:

Early booking is advised as the delegate fee will rise as the conference approaches!

Member: £65
Non-member: £105
Catch-up on TV option: £25

The catch-up TV option will be available from Friday 18 November 2022 for three months, login details will be sent the week prior. The member and non-member rate also includes access to catch-up TV post event.

Opportunities available to sponsor / exhibit:

We would like to engage with innovators, leaders and motivators in hearing conservation to help us provide attendees to the conference with solutions and drivers for change. If you feel you would like to help us bring those solutions to the attention of those who need help solving hearing conservation challenges please speak to us and see how we can showcase your interventions.

If you are a not for profit or charitable organisation who share our passion for hearing health protection please contact us to discuss ways we can collaborate.

Please contact Catriona.Rice@fitwise.co.uk or call 01506 292039

Full details, to include the programme and registration click here

 

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