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Hampshire County Council<\/a> has been fined \u00a31.4m after a six-year-old girl playing on an unsecured street bollard suffered a serious, life-changing head injury<\/h2>\n

Bournemouth Crown Court heard how, on 28 December 2015, the girl was visiting Lymington with her family. She climbed onto the cast iron hinged bollard on Quay Hill, a cobbled pedestrianised street. The bollard fell to the ground taking the child with it. As a result, she suffered life-changing head injuries that were initially life-threatening and spent six months in hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n

The extent of her brain injury will not be fully known until her brain has matured.<\/p>\n

HSE investigation<\/h3>\n

An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive<\/a> (HSE) found the bollard which weighed approximately 69kg was damaged and not appropriately secured. This matter had been reported to Hampshire County Council prior to the incident and monthly scheduled inspections had failed to identify this.<\/p>\n

The investigation also discovered insufficient information, instruction and training were provided to the council\u2019s highways department personnel conducting ad hoc and monthly inspections, and the inspection guidance was misleading.<\/p>\n

Hampshire County Council was found guilty after a trial of breaching Section 3(1) of Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and has been fined \u00a31.4m and ordered to pay full costs of \u00a3130,632.<\/p>\n

Speaking after the case, HSE inspector Angela Sirianni, said: \u201cCouncils have a duty to adequately assess and control risks to members of the public from street furniture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA child has been left with life-changing injuries as a result of what was an easily preventable incident. Council inspections failed to identify this risk over a long period of time and then, when alerted to the damage to the bollard, failed to take the urgent action required to prevent injury.\u201d<\/p>\n

Section 3(1) of Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974<\/h3>\n

Section 3 places general duties on employers and the self-employed to conduct their undertakings in such a way as to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, that persons other than themselves or their employees are not exposed to risks to their health or safety.<\/p>\n

For section 3 to apply:<\/h4>\n
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  • There must be a duty-holder – either an employer or a self-employed person, and;<\/li>\n
  • There must be a risk to the health or safety of a person who is not the employee of the duty holder or the self-employed duty holder themselves, and;<\/li>\n
  • That risk must arise from the conduct of the duty holder’s undertaking. An ‘undertaking’ means ‘enterprise’ or ‘business’.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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