HSE issues warning over plant operator licences

The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) has today (Friday) issued a warning about training certificates and plant operator licences.

The move follows an HSE investigation in the South East which found evidence of malpractice by one individual plant trainer operating throughout the United Kingdom. As a result, Prohibition Notices have been served on David Harris and his company Future International Training. 

These notices require an immediate halt to the issue of training certificates, plant operators licences or any other indication that training and testing has been carried out unless a proper scheme has been followed.

HSE wants to warn employers, employees and the self-employed that in the wrong hands work equipment operated incorrectly can cause major injury or death of the user, other workers or members of the public.