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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Glass maker fined after lead contamination  Glassmaker Staffordshire Crystal Ltd, trading as Brierley Crystal, has been fined £3,600 after the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found that levels of lead at the company's premises were above the legal limit, making employees vulnerable to infection and other industrial diseases. The company, based in Pedmore Road Industrial Estate, Brierley Hill pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 5 of the Control of Lead at Work Regulations 2002 and Regulation 25(2)(b) of the Workplace (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1992. In addition to the fine, the company was also ordered to pay £7,000 in costs. On October 27th 2009, Stourbridge and Halesowen Magistrates Court heard how a site inspection produced lead cut crystal items which clarified that lead exposure was not sufficiently controlled by the company. HSE inspector Jenny Skeldon said: "Lead exposure is a recognised cause of occupational ill health and this requires adequate control measures to either prevent or control exposure." This news comes after construction company Kier North West, part of the Kier group, was fined £160,000 by the HSE after Wallsey man Karl Davis fell from a building in Halewood when a guardrail failed to support his body. Posted by Gaby Hamerton 
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