Failure to manage fatigue led to road fatalities

Railway welding specialist Renown Consultants has been fined £450,000 and ordered to pay an additional £300,000 in costs for failing to ensure that two of its workers – who were fatally injured in a road collision after a night shift – were sufficiently rested to work and travel safely.

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