West Sussex Firm Shows Scant Regard For Health & Safety - Reg Costello Reports

A West Sussex Firm has been reported to the HSE for repeatedly laughing in the face of worker's safety and paying no heed at all to modern working practice guidelines, the firm cannot be named for legal reasons. The picture left shows a Transvac employee suffering from having his leg badly crushed by a hefty plank, whilst a colleague mocks him and goads the photographer to take more pictures. According to various sources, this is just one of many such incidents from a catalogue of catastrophes over many years. Rumours are rife including a near miss when a heavy pump was being lowered into a crate with old bits of string, a senior employee being struck down due to careless fork lift truck operation and an immigrant welder who lost most of his hand due to horseplay in the workshop. The Service Manager was interviewed regarding these accusations and put these infringements down to workers "acting the goat" whilst his back was turned. He also asked me to say "Hi to Howard" whatever that means.