HSE Prosecutes Employer for Violation of Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance Act
November 30th, 2009
The Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance Act 1969 requires employers to get compulsory insurance for their staff in order to help them during any adversity. The Act also requires them to produce a current certificate for the same whenever asked by an Inspector of the Health and Safety Executive (
A recent case of an employer failing to do so has been taken very seriously by HSE. Talking about the case, HSE Inspector Andrew Saunders said that since the Act aims to protect the staff members, HSE cannot ignore such violations, which can harm them.
If anyone does not take insurance for his staff or does not produce the certificate when asked, the person is in violation of Section 1(1) of the Act and will be prosecuted by HSE.
Dipak Kumar Kantial Solanki from Melbourn came to know this only when an Environmental Health Officer visited his store and asked him to show his current Employers’ Liability Compulsory Insurance (ELCI) certificate in April 2009. When he could not show it to the officer, the latter informed the HSE about the failure. HSE immediately served a notice to Mr Solanki to show the document to an
However, since Mr Solanki did not do that either, he was prosecuted for breach of the Act, for which he accepted his liability, and was ordered to pay fine of £1000 and cost of £539.60 by Cambridge Magistrates’ Court in November 2009.
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