In the latest news of Health and Safety Matters, a Rail company called Network Rail has been fined £3.4m and other costs of £43,096 for failing to ensure adequate safety measures which could have prevented a fatal incident on it’s worker.
This is after an investigation and prosecution was conducted on the incident by the UK responsible body the Office of Rail and Road(ORR).
This fatal incident occurred on 9th February 2021 The victim Tyler Byrne was fatally wounded Tyler Byrne while he was performing track inspections near Surbiton railway station in south-west London, he was struck by a passenger train and pronounced dead at the scene.
The investigation revealed that there was no protection and an inadequate warning system in place, which exposed all members of the working party to the risk of being struck by a train in the course of their work. In addition there were no systems of monitoring and supervision for workers undertaking this task.

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