Brent Bravo: unions call for inquiry system overhaul and corporate killing law

Trade unions have called for the Fatal Accident Inquiries (FAI) system to be overhauled and a corporate killing law to be introduced after an inquiry into the deaths of two workers at Shell’s Brent Bravo offshore installation made no safety recommendations.

As Workplace Law previously reported, the incident has already led to Shell being fined £900,000 in May 2005 after it pleaded guilty to breaching Sections 2(1) and 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and Section 3(... (373 more words)

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