Balfour Beatty fined £500k over hand-arm vibration syndrome

Balfour Beatty

Health and Safety Executive said firm had failed to protect workers from “well known risk”

Balfour Beatty has been fined £500,000 after failing to “adequately control” the risk to some of its workers of hand-arm vibration.

Balfour Beatty Utility Solutions Ltd was fined £500,000 after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that workers at the company were exposed to hand-arm vibration between 2002 and 2011 which put them at risk of developing Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome.

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