§ Mr. PatchettTo ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will itemise the number and year of each visit the number, type and year of each notice, and the offence by year and resultant fine with regard to Health and Safety Executive action at Stallite Batteries, Worsborough Dale, Barnsley in each of the years from 1958 to 1987.
§ Mr. NichollsThe following table shows the number and year of visits to Stallite Batteries, Worsborough Dale, Barnsley, from 1965 to 1986. During 1986 the company moved to new premises in Bolton-on-Dearne.
Year Number of visits 1965 5 1966 4 1967 3 1968 4 1969 3 1970 1 1971 16 1972 13 1973 4 1974 25 1975 14 1976 12 1977 12 1978 22 1979 7 1980 5 1981 11 1982 4 1983 5 1984 4 1985 18 1986 17 The factory was not known to Her Majesty's factory inspectorate, now part of the Health and Safety Executive, prior to 1965.
The following enforcement notices were served during the same period.
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Year Number of notices issued 1975 1 Prohibition notice 1 Improvement notice 1978 2 Improvement notices 1 Prohibition notice 1981 2 Improvement notices 1982 1 Improvement notice 1983 2 Improvement notices 1985 1 Improvement notice Prosecutions by year with resultant fines are as follows:
Year and Offence Total fine £ 1965 Failure to notify occupation and illegal employment on a lead process: 21–18–0 1973 Failure to control fumes and failure to have an employee medically examined. 100 1988 (offence in 1986) Failure to suspend person who was issued with a certificate of unfitness for work with lead. 750