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First report 25 Aug 2020•Latest report 25 Aug 2020

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Reports over time

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Reports
1

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Published responses
0%

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Concerns addressed
0

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Stated actions
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Concerns and recipient responses

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  1. Inner North London

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    Daniel Richard COLEMAN · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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    Report summary

    Daniel Richard Coleman, a construction site manager living at a demolition site, died in an accidental fire associated with his production of crystal meth. The report raised concerns that his occupation of the site and frequent illicit drug use went unnoticed, that site security was ineffective, that records of his presence were incomplete, and that the drug and alcohol policy had not led to any drug testing.

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    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to detect drug or alcohol impairment

    Wider context from the report

    “7. I heard evidence that not one of Mr Coleman’s Camden managers or First Response colleagues noticed that he was in any way intoxicated or under the influence of drugs. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to detect unauthorised occupation of operational sites

    Wider context from the report

    “1. I heard evidence that neither Camden managers, who I was told visited the site frequently, nor First Response security officers, who were a constant presence, had noticed that Mr Coleman was living on site. Even a neighbour had seen a light on night after night in the flat where Mr Coleman had a bed, bedding, clothes hanging on a clothes rail, CD player and other personal items. 2. I also heard that Mr Coleman had previously lived on another Camden site at Bacton Low Rise, and that this too went unnoticed. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to assess drug-related risk for personnel in charge of an entire site

    Wider context from the report

    “8. Evidence was given that Camden did not regard Mr Coleman’s occupation as high risk for drugs because he did not operate heavy machinery, but he was in charge of a whole site. The explosion and fire he started accidentally could have resulted in other fatalities as well as his own. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to implement drug testing under the drug and alcohol policy

    Wider context from the report

    “9. I was told that a Camden drug and alcohol policy that had been in place for five months at the time of Mr Coleman’s death had not resulted in a single attempt at a drug test. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Incomplete site signing in and out records

    Wider context from the report

    “6. The Camden Council signing in/out record was incomplete, often not recording Mr Coleman’s presence on site at all, and the last entry before Mr Coleman died on 14 February 2020 was dated 7 February 2020. ”
    Open source report

    Source evidence

    How this individual concern was interpreted

    PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to First Response Group; that does not assign responsibility.

    PFD Monitor interpretation

    Failure to provide effective security patrols

    Wider context from the report

    “3. The evidence from the two First Response night time security officers who came to court was inconsistent and concerning. One said that he always patrolled twice an hour. The other said that each officer patrolled once every two hours. When I asked one officer what he did in between patrols (I was keen to exclude the possibility of security officers sleeping through the night), he said that it took him five minutes to write up each patrol, then he just sat and waited for the next patrol. The writing up he described was one line only, exactly the same line recorded with the time advanced by one hour as on the previous line. This would have taken a matter of seconds. One officer gave evidence that he photographed the building during every one of his patrols. It later emerged that this protocol of photographing was only introduced after 14 February 2020, though I had specifically asked about the situation before Mr Coleman’s death. I was misled. This does not paint a picture of effective security. ”
    Open source report
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