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A garage owner in Seven Sisters, North London, has been fined for several health and safety breaches after a worker was attacked by a guard dog.

A Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation into the dog attack in January 2014 which left a mechanic with injuries to his thigh, uncovered a wide range of serious health and safety breaches at the garage. These included spray painting without appropriate control measures to prevent workers and members of the public from breathing in dangerous hazardous chemicals, an unsafe vehicle lift, and a lack of adequate welfare facilities. HSE had previously taken enforcement action against the garage's owner Mehmet Salih, 54, in relation to these offences.

Westminster Magistrates Court heard how Mehmet Salih gave HSE a false identity, claiming the business owner was out of the country and claimed that the business did not carry out certain tasks.

Mehmet Salih, of North Circular Road, London, pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2(1) and 4(2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974, and Regulation 9(2) of the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations, 1998. He was given a six months prison term for each charge suspended for two years, and ordered to undertake 300 hours of unpaid work. He was also ordered to pay £2,000 in costs and £5,000 compensation to the victim of the dog bite.

Source: H.S.E. Website