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Gavin Wright
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An 18 year old disabled girl was killed as a result of being lowered into a bath of scalding water by untrained staff. Yelena Hasselberg-Langley was being cared for by Lifeways Community Care Ltd in Oxford who failed to provide adequate training for their staff. As a blind paraplegic epileptic, she required 24 hour care which wasn’t given due to a failure in
Yelena Hasselberg-Langley
Ensuring standards of health and safety. The carer(s) involved were not prosecuted due to the fact that the company failed to comply with basic health and safety concerns. Fined £100,000, you can read the details of the case on the HSE web site.
Specific guidance on the risks from scalding risks from hot water in health and social care can be found at:-
http://www.hse.gov.uk/LAU/lac s/79-5.htm
