IR(ME)R enforcement notice compliance: Barts Health NHS Trust (September 2021)

Page last updated: 25 May 2022

Enforcement type

Improvement Notice

Date notice served

28 May 2021

Breach

On and/or before 19 May 2021, the employer was found in breach of regulations 6(2), 6(5)(b), 14(3)(e),(h),(i), 15(3)(b), 15(6)(a),(b),(c), and 17(4).

Description

An Improvement Notice was issued to the employer under Section 21 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 following an inspection which took place at the Royal London Hospital and Whipps Cross Hospital on 18 and 19 May 2021 These inspections identified concerns around document control, poor oversight of radiation protection from the medical physics experts, an incomplete programme of quality assurance for equipment, and poor management of aging equipment.

Result

The employer was reinspected on 08 and 09 September 2021 and deemed to comply with this notice.