Introduction to Fire Safety Management

Year
Number of
Total fi nes 
Average fi ne
ending convictions imposed per 
prosecution
2001 
495 
£5 573 525 
£41 676
2002 
530 
£8 225 466 
£58 167
2003 
451 
£4 710 051 
£39 888
2004 
512 
£8 928 600 
£45 882
2005 
396 
£6 857 200 
£40 895
Table 1.5
HSE prosecution of employers
Actions/options 
HSE/LA/FA
FA alterations 
HSE/LA/FA
 improvement/enforcement 
 
prohibition
Action of appeal 
Suspends the operation of
Suspends the operation of
Does not suspend the operation
the notice until hearing 
the notice until hearing 
of the notice until hearing
Court options 
Cancel, affi rm, affi rm with
Cancel, affi rm, affi rm with
Cancel, affi rm, affi rm with
modifi cations 
modifi cations 
modifi cations
Table 1.4
Consequences of appealing within 21 days against notices
Note:
although there is provision to appeal against a notice relating to switches for luminous discharge tubes, the RRFSO fails to mention whether the 
notice remains in force during the appeal.

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incident. This is in part due to the supply chain continu-
ing to require commodities and that if one organisation 
(having suffered an incident) cannot deliver then an 
alternative will need to be utilised.
Following a number of recent large scale disasters 
(Buncefi eld Oil Depot, Festival Fireworks Storage facility/
factory) statistics have unfortunately been proven correct 
for those operating in close proximity to the disaster 
areas. Many smaller organisations have failed to recover 
and have closed their operations for good.