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DIRECTOR Fined £4,000 For Work Death

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brothermagrew
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DIRECTOR Fined £4,000 For Work Death

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The former director of an aggregates firm has been fined £4,000 over the death of a lorry driver in east London in 2001. John Peter Wootten, formerly trading as AEP Aggregates, was hit with the fine and £750 in costs at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to two breaches of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.

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"Today’s workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to be minimised."
norbert
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Re: DIRECTOR Fined £4,000 For Work Death

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brothermagrew wrote:The former director of an aggregates firm has been fined £4,000 over the death of a lorry driver in east London in 2001. John Peter Wootten, formerly trading as AEP Aggregates, was hit with the fine and £750 in costs at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to two breaches of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations.

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If I remember rightly the aggregates wagon drivers were paid by the amount of wagon loads in that industry - somebody might be able to confirm that ? - that might have a lot to do with it ?
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Re: DIRECTOR Fined £4,000 For Work Death

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oh good god.. what a horrible situation.
and here comes avi cohen! oh i say! at the same end, he's got one back!!