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A local contractor has admitted breaching health and safety regulations by letting an “inadequately trained worker" operate a dumper truck on the Samares Nursery Construction Site, which led an employee to suffer serious injuries, when the plant overturned.
BRB Site Excavation and Groundworks Limited will be sentenced in January 2020 in the Royal Court.
The company, who were contracted to work on the Samares Nursery construction site, appeared in Court on Friday facing one charge of "failing to discharge the duties to which they are subject to under Regulation 13 of the Health and Safety (Management in Construction) Law."
It says they failed to ensure properly trained workers were present to dig up a trench for a communications cable, described it as “high risk” construction work.
The Court heard that the company also failed to manage the work by allowing an “inadequately trained worker” to operate a dumper truck with no supervision or monitoring, as the foreman had left the site after the work had started.
Pictured: The company will be sentenced in the Royal Court on 10 January 2020.
The charge also mentions BRB’s failure to prepare a “safe work method statement” for the high-risk construction work, to “provide supervision and training” to their employee to ensure the work was done “competently and safely.”
As a result of the failures, one of BRB’s employees was seriously injured when the dumper truck overturned at the site.
The company, represented by Advocate Debbie Corbel, admitted the infractions.
They will be sentenced in Royal Court on 10 January 2020.
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