£150,000 fine for Care Home Wheelchair Restraint Strap Death
A private healthcare company was fined £150,000 in January 2012 after admitting its part in the death of an elderly nursing home resident who was strangled by a wheelchair lap belt. Brigid O’Callaghan, known as Vera, was found dead on the morning of October 28, 2005 at Amberley Court Nursing Home in Edgbaston, Birmingham. […]
Care Home Restraint Training: a £44,000 price for restraint training failure
On New Year’s Eve 2009, a support worker at Dimensions (UK) Ltd was kicked in the eye by a client. The worker survived. The company’s reputation didn’t. When the Health and Safety Executive finished its investigation, Dimensions was fined £14,000 and ordered to pay £30,000 in costs — a £44,000 penalty for a failure that […]