Blackpool magistrates also ordered the club to pay £500 costs and the £15 victims’ surcharge after it pleaded guilty to two offences of failing to comply with an improvement notice.
Peter Trend, presiding magistrate, said the club had “put people at risk”, was “highly culpable” and had “ignored matters”.
One notice required it provide an assessment of health and safety risks to employees and the other to provide a written health and safety policy.
Lynda Bennett, prosecuting for Blackpool Council, said official Jacqueline Harrison met club representatives to discuss concerns that there was no safety policy or risk assessment for non-match days at Bloomfield Road.
The club was covered only for match days.
Ms Harrison served two improvement notices, which required it to provide a health and safety assessment of risks to people at the club and a written health and safety policy.
The club should have complied but failed to do so. Ms Harrison invited representatives to a meeting but they declined to attend.
Ms Bennett added the written policy had still not been signed, so technically there was no designated person overseeing health and safety policy at the club on non-match days.
She said: “There was a lengthy opportunity for the club to comply. ”
Roderick Dyer, company secretary, said the man principally responsible for health and safety assessment and written policy on non-match days had been diagnosed with throat cancer and had left work in March to undergo treatment.
No-one else at the club realised the work had not been done.
