Fire enforcement notices served on Hinkley Point C contractors

Inspections by safety officials in December revealed failings in the fire safety arrangements of the MEH alliance, the agencies endeavor mechanical, electrical & heating (MEH) and air glide & air con (HVAC) set up at Hinkley Level C.

All 5 companies in the MEH alliance had been serviced with fire enforcement notices by the Place of business for Nuclear Rules (ONR). They’re: 

• Altrad Babcock
• Altrad Providers
• Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick
• Cavendish Nuclear
• NG Bailey  .

 The Unit 1 HF (electrical) building used to be inspected in December 2025 as phase of a centered inspection to evaluate the MEH fire safety arrangements for compliance with the Regulatory Reform (Fireplace Security) Expose 2005.

ONR inspectors identified lots of necessary shortfalls including the absence of an acceptable and ample fire possibility evaluation, inadequate manner of destroy out ensuing in insufficient emergency exits being available for the numbers of alternative folks working in the building, and a necessary accumulation of combustible offers inner a staircase designated for expend as an emergency exit route.

The enforcement motion requires the named organisations to make enhancements to make decided ample arrangements are developed and embedded to tackle the shortfalls in compliance and forestall reoccurrence.

ONR head of regulation Mahtab Khan talked about: “Fireplace safety is a valuable phase of our regulatory exercise and is now not optional – it is miles a correct requirement that protects lives. We is now not going to hesitate to rob enforcement motion the attach safety standards plunge immediate, and we search files from all accountability holders to tackle fire safety with the urgency it calls for.

“Working alongside the predominant contractor and MEH alliance, we have made correct progress in knowing the foundation causes of these shortfalls to make decided they are addressed.”

ONR is additionally pursuing the principle works contractors, Bouygues Travaux Publics and Laing O’Rourke Provide, via the courts for safety breaches.[See: [See: Hinkley Level C contractors whine health and safety offences]

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