Holiday firm failed to maintain electrical system in a safe condition
Information provided to a local authority from a concerned person led to a leisure company being prosecuted over the condition of an electrical installation at a Suffolk holiday camp.
Cinque Ports Leisure Limited of Hastings, East Sussex, pleaded guilty to charges under the Health and Safety At Work Etc Act 1974, and the Electricity at Work Regulations 1989, relating to conditions at one of its 20 holiday villages, the Suffolk Sands Holiday Park in Felixstowe, for which it was fined a total of £30,000 by Ipswich Magistrates.
The company admitted its failure to safely maintain electrical systems:

the electrical hook-up systems were not protected against damage caused by vehicles reversing;
there was an inadequate procedure to ensure that the electrics were properly maintained;
damaged electrical boxes had been inadequately maintained by the use of adhesive tape to damaged insulation, and some conductors were not suitably covered with insulating materials.
Comment:
“We investigated immediately after receiving an anonymous letter on August 30 that complained about the state of some of the electrical hook-up points that are for use by touring caravans and tents.
Our inspection revealed that inadequate and unsafe repairs had been attempted with sticky tape in some cases and also examples where there were holes in the box casings. The defects were such that electrical conductors were exposed and any protective systems may have been rendered useless.
We immediately served prohibition notices to stop any further use of those boxes, and an improvement notice demanding that the necessary works be carried out to make them safe again. I am pleased that the Court recognised the seriousness of this offence as there was a real risk to both holiday-makers and the people who worked there.
This legislation sets out the requirements to maintain electrical systems and there was clearly a large gap between where the company should be on health and safety grounds and the reality that our inspection revealed.
It is particularly worrying when this same company had previously been fined £50,000 after a 20 year old electrical contractor was killed as a result of electric shock at its premises in St Osyth, Essex in 1999.
Thankfully, our action helped prevented any similar tragedy occurring this time, but I can only hope that this case will prompt all companies to review their safety procedures because the cost of bodged repairs or turning a blind eye can be enormous, either financially or in terms of physical harm.” - Cllr. and Cabinet Member for Community Well-being, Suffolk Coastal District Council.