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What is the liability of householders to window cleaners on ladders?
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Back in the 1900’s before the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 was a mere twinkle in the eye of the HSE’s first Director General, John Locke (74) window cleaning, just as all other trades, took great risks. Residential window cleaning by large window cleaning companies were reserved mainly for the very rich and the commercial sector boomed. Around this time, as the population could buy more with their money, working class folk would begin…

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Man jailed for the death of employee – Ladder fatalilty (UK)

Colin Jeffery found guilty of manslaughter. The owner of a gutter cleaning company has been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced today (14th of October) at Exeter Crown Court, following an incident in December 2014 where a 17-year-old Mason Beau Jennians (known as Beau) died as a result of falling from a ladder. Colin Jeffery from Durham Close, Paignton, trading as Utterley Gutterley, pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter by gross negligence and a breach of…

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