Are you criminally responsible for health and safety breaches?

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• MacRoberts Solicitors

In addition to owing a number of fiduciary duties to the company to which they are appointed, personal responsibility for directors can arise in a number of areas and under a variety of statutes. One such area is health and safety.

 An individual director, company secretary or manager of a company can be held criminally responsible for health and safety offences where the company itself is found guilty of a health and safety offence and the offence is committed with the consent or conn... (229 more words)

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