A court was told how three workers insisted the turned off hot torches on the roof before they left the site for a tea break
Bennett Management Contractors Ltd, of Central Street, London, and AF Roofing, of Knocknastooka, Grange, Youghal, Co Waterford, both pleaded guilty to a charge of failing to ensure the health and safety of employees at work.
Belfast Crown Court heard that on August 28, 2018, a crane driver raised the alarm about seeing smoke on the roof of the Primark Building on Royal Avenue. The workers maintained that before leaving the site for their break they had "turned off the pilots'' on the hot torches. "A total of 302 firefighters attended the blaze along with 64 appliances. The fires spread quickly and was devastating to the building and took several days to extinguish.'' The fire was eventually put out on Saturday, September 1, 2023.
Mr Henry said a risk assessment carried out by both companies days before the work started was "ineffective in indentifying risks - no checks were made of what was underneath the roofing where the work was to be done.'' He said that unlike other health and safety cases, "there is no fatality in this case or anyone seriously injured. In fact there was no injury to any person.''
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