Clean up your employees' welfare

A London window manufacturer has been prosecuted for ignoring two Improvement Notices requiring them to bring employee welfare facilities up to a clean and hygienic standard.

The toilets were in a poor state of repair with no washing facilities and the canteen area was not equipped and was in an unsanitary condition.

HSE Inspector Clare Hawkes, said, "The law requires employers to provide a minimum basic standard of clean and hygienic welfare facilities for workers. There's no excuse for not providing them. Failure to provide decent facilities or to comply with enforcement notices are serious matters. The Company showed complete disregard for the welfare of its employees and for the law."