The proprietors and director of a care home in Newcastle have been punished with a fine of greater than GBP 22,000 for violating fire safety ordinances.
Manager Linda Parkin of Bowland Lodge was ordered to pay a fine and cost totalling GBP 2,400 when she admitted to locking one of the fire exits.
The Bowland Lodge proprietor, Tirsul Ltd, was declared chargeable by Newcastle Magistrates this month to five accusations pertaining to serious infringements of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Tirsul Ltd was decreed to pay a fine amounting almost GBP 19,000 and GBP 1,600 in costs.
Group Manager of Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service,, Darren Boddy, said that the Service essays to operate alongside businesses to effect a safe community, and its programme of enforcement is balanced with the risks attached. Even so, if there are dangerous or regular lapses in safety regulations that threaten lives it will take action legally.
Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Service charged Tirsul Ltd after the Lodge was involved in a fire in the third week of August 2009. Crews established that a fire exit had locked and nailed closed. A subsequent audit of the Lodge showed numerous graver fire safety breaches.
Tirsul Ltd was charged with flouting regulations like the locked exit, not having a desirable and decent fire risk appraisal, no compartmentalization that would prevent smoke spread, inadequately maintained floors, walls and ceilings to prevent the fire from fanning out, besides an insecure escape route externally due to construction work ongoing at the time.
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