The Workplace for Nuclear Legislation (ONR) has served a hearth enforcement realize on Bylor JV (Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues Travaux Publics) after figuring out important fireplace protection shortfalls on the Hinkley Level C nuclear building web page.
Following a hearth protection intervention, ONR inspectors known that Bylor had didn’t enforce suitable preparations for the efficient making plans, organisation, keep an eye on, tracking and evaluation of preventive and protecting measures.
Most of the Bylor constructions at the Somerset web page are recently at a complicated degree of building and those shortfalls led to insufficient basic fireplace precautions, together with a loss of an ok emergency lighting fixtures gadget, the ONR stated.
Bylor is a three way partnership of Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke, handing over HPC’s primary civil engineering works.
Ray Cassar, ONR’s fireplace protection inspector stated: “Fireplace protection is prime to protective staff and the general public at nuclear building websites. Our inspectors discovered that fireplace protection preparations on the Hinkley Level C web page didn’t meet the factors we require, specifically given the dimensions and complexity of the continued building paintings. We additionally took under consideration a number of an identical findings from earlier inspections.
“We will be able to paintings with Bylor JV to make sure they put correct programs in position to regulate fireplace dangers successfully and save you an identical problems bobbing up in long term.”
The enforcement motion has been served underneath the Regulatory Reform (Fireplace Protection) Order 2005.
There have been no penalties to workers, the general public or the surroundings on account of the shortfalls, the ONR stated; alternatively, it known the possibility of hurt and chance of great harm, which required regulatory motion.
The enhancements should be finished by way of 30th June 2026. Within the intervening time, Bylor JV is predicted to regulate the danger profile accordingly.
Bylor is already going through prosecution by way of ONR in two different instances associated with well being and protection incidents at Hinkley Level C. The primary prosecution, introduced in July 2025, pertains to a fatality that came about on web page in November 2022, with fees additionally in opposition to NNB Technology Corporate (HPC) Ltd.
The second one prosecution, introduced in August 2025, comes to a major harm in August 2022 when a rebar mesh wall fell on a employee. The primary listening to of a prosecution for this twist of fate in opposition to Bylor’s father or mother firms, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke, can be held at Bristol Magistrates Court docket on Monday 15th December 2025.
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