Tahir Karim, a director of a former car salvage company was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment for failing to comply with HSE enforcement notices served to protect the health and safety of workers in his workplace and visitors to the site.
The circumstances were:
- Between 2018 and 2021, Mr Karim was in control of activities and persons working at the site known as Long Life Spares.
- Four enforcement notices had been served in relation to structural safety and the use of unsafe forklift truck vehicles.
- Mr Karim had failed to comply with all of the prohibition notices served.
- However, he was aware of the risks and directed workers to act in a way that contravened the prohibitions and risked their own safety
The HSE inspector said
“We do not tolerate disregard for health and safety and consider the non-compliance of HSE Enforcement Notices as a serious offence.”
