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Companies warned over asbestos after company and director fined
The HSE has warned businesses that they must keep accurate details of asbestos in their buildings before any construction work takes place. The HSE also said managers of non-domestic premises must ensure they act upon any information they hold about asbestos.The warning comes after a Kirkcaldy-based company was fined...
Case | 11 Dec 2008
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...ce Law Magazine, 110 Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 1LQ. Fax: 0871 777 8882 Email: sara.bean@workplacelaw.net 5 www.workplacelaw.net Latest | Legal calendar Legal calendar Important diary dates for the months ahead... NOVEMBER 2010 The Ministry of Justice's consultation, to find out the views of Uk companies on guidance on the new Uk Bribery Act, comes to a close on 8 November. The new law, which will come into force in April 2011, will introduce a corporate offence of failure to prevent bribery by employees working for a business. The Ministry of Justice says "It will ensure the UK is at the forefront...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
... fit staff are essential to ensuring a company remains efficient and profitable." Recent research commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions demonstrates that work is good for your health, so if it is good for the individual and good for the employer and the organisation, then it is worth companies investing some time and money into the health and wellbeing of employees. As the biggest single cause of sickness absence is stress-related conditions, it seems sensible to consider how best to reduce stress levels and provide a working environment that reduces stress and encourages positive, healt...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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3 strikes and your fire's not out!
...ghlighted that the Fire Service no longer checked fire hydrants. These essential checks had previously been carried out by fire service staff in between `shouts' and were considered a part of their normal duties. Since the reforms, the responsibility for these checks has been transferred to private companies, and it transpired that the hydrants at the hotel in Cornwall didn't work. Could the seriousness of the fire have been reduced if the hydrants had been working (and crews hadn't had to come from so far afield to reach the blaze)? We'll never know. But it certainly makes you think. Workplace Law Mag...
Magazine issue | 8 Nov 2007
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Directors' responsibilities for health and safety
...er of high-profile cases that have gained masses of media attention such as the Hatfield train crash the concern is that new legislation (in the form of the Health and Safety (Directors' Duties) Bill) will serve only to grab the news headlines further rather than actually make a difference to companies' approaches to health and safety. The concept of seeing directors sent down, it seems, has become all too sexy in the public eye and we are at risk of forgetting the point of any new legislation to protect employees from those few employers who disregard health and safety in favour of profit. Re...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2005
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Failure to manage asbestos results in costly court action, warns Usdaw
Shopworkers’ union Usdaw has warned firms that failure to take asbestos risks seriously could result in costly court action. High street firm Poundstretcher Ltd was ordered to pay £15,000 in fines and costs after exposing employees to asbestos fibres. A Usdaw spokesperson said: "Asbestos is a very dangerous substance that need...
News | 23 Aug 2004
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It’s a WRAP
... about the impact of environmental regulations on businesses and hinted that carbon reduction targets could be watered down. Speaking at the Conservative Party Conference he said: "Now we know that a decade of environmental laws and regulations are piling costs on the energy bills of households and companies. Yes, climate change is a manmade disaster. Yes, we need international agreement to stop it. Yes, we must have investment in greener energy. But Britain makes up less than 2% of the world's carbon emissions to China and America's 40%. We're not going to save the planet by putting our country out of...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
... the headlines recently. But are they even legal? asks Sarah Wray. group Internocracy. The research found that only 12% of the managers interviewed who had heard of internships understood that offering unpaid placements may break the law. Just 9% of those surveyed said they agreed it was right for companies not to pay their interns, but a quick scan of any arts, media or politics job boards and increasingly those of wider industries will show just how commonplace unpaid placements are within both small organisations and large household names. Internocracy and the IPPR estimate that around 128,00...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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The Diversity Dilemma
...ngth during November and December. The fact is that excessive drinking is a problem within the workplace all the year round. Research by health promotion charity, Health@work (see p.24) revealed some worrying statistics when it delved into the drinking habits of younger workers in Liverpool. 28% of companies that took part said they were negatively affected by alcohol, and 31% were negatively affected by staff 's use of alcohol out of working hours. Over half of businesses thought alcohol contributed to employee sickness absence. As the Challenge on p.27 advises there is no fixed rule on drafting a dru...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2009
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
... location, business operation or risk horizon that applies." for any disruption caused before, during or after the games, albeit related to the geographic location, business operation or risk horizon that applies. In this sense there is a difference between pandemic influenza and the games, as many companies might be unaffected by the latter, but we will all be affected by the former; however, the BC planning concept remains the same. Let's take just one big threat that's out there now. I can well remember the day in July 2005 when it was announced London won the games for 2012. The cheer from Trafalga...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
...e a new offence of corporate manslaughter. Organisations representing both employers and employees have so far remained a little sceptical with reason as to the Government's commitment to this move. But the general consensus seems to be that the introduction of a new offence would finally see companies paying the proper price for their management failures. Whether this threat of prosecution would, in turn, make employers more aware of their duties under health and safety law is questionable. As Kathryn Gilbertson of Greenwoods Solicitors points out, `You'll always have responsible companies and o...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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Survival of the fit note?
... OECD Convention. Although the Act is similar to other countries' anti-bribery regimes, for example the US, the UK Act is now generally considered to be one of the toughest bribery regimes worldwide. The DEFRA consultation on whether regulations should be introduced to make it mandatory for some UK companies to report on their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, or whether the Government should continue to encourage measuring and reporting of GHG emissions on a voluntary basis, closes on 5 July. Section 85 of the Climate Change Act 2008 requires the Government to make regulations, under the Companies Act 2...
Magazine issue | 5 Jul 2011
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Open for Business
...important to note that the CRC applies to electricity supply across organisations and groups of undertakings rather than individual sites. This is a particularly complex aspect to the CRC, hence it is imperative that a clear organisational structure is defined. For private sector organisations, the Companies Act 2006 definitions of parent and subsidiary undertakings are used and separate detailed guidance is available for public sector organisations from the Department of Energy and Climate Change. Organisations need to be aware of an additional cut-off date (30 June 2010) which is the last point after...
Magazine issue | 4 May 2010
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Dealing with bogus claimants
...on it until 31 March, at which time its future will be reviewed. Alan Ritchie, General Secretary of construction union UCATT, said: "It is essential that anyone who could have been blacklisted is given every opportunity to access their files and has the possibility of redress against the company or companies that blacklisted them." 21124 APRIL 2010 6 april The use of `fit notes' begins. The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 2010 come into force, replacing old style sick notes with `fit notes'. The purpose of the new system is to allow GP...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2010
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The world in your hands?
...t, Clive Raybould, with the latest guidance on managing fire safety within a commercial premises. 40 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on key management issues. 09 COMMENT If new Sentencing Guidelines for Corporate Manslaughter and health and safety offences come into force, companies could face fines running into millions, says Paul Verrico. foCuS 18 DOWN TO EARTh As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century, will climate change start to impact organisations in a more palpable way? Workplace Law consulted with a number of environmental experts for their views. netWoRK 42...
Magazine issue | 8 Jan 2010
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
... push ahead with plans to introduce new dangerous dog laws, after a Glasgow postman was hospitalised following a savage attack by two Japanese Akita dogs. 22268 Although the number of new swine flu cases levelled off during the summer, as we go into the autumn a surge in cases has been predicted. "Companies should extend their current absence policy now to cover all types of absences and situations, advises David Woollcott, Senior HR Consultant. "They don't necessarily have to write a different policy but extend it; for example, an organisation with contingencies for flood or fire damage will already ...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Soap star: The hygiene special issue
... lead to unforeseen consequences. the Ctpa can help government understand such problems before they arise and this leads to improved law-making. "So that's one of the things the Ctpa does we help to ensure that the legislation is, to the best of our ability, worded in a practical fashion to help companies comply." to make it easier for people with skin allergies (or managers trying to help staff ) avoid products that might cause problems, the Cosmetics Directive lists the 26 different perfume ingredients that Flower says are associated with higher instances of allergic reaction and must be included ...
Magazine issue | 3 Mar 2009
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2009: new beginnings
... announce that it is reconsidering all employment regulation in the pipeline to help businesses get through the economic downturn. So what is going on? Will 2009 be a year for many changes to workplace legislation, or will it all be put back so that employers and managers can concentrate on keeping companies afloat? It is hard to tell at this stage as we go to print, the Queen's Speech (which may shed some light on the matter) is still a week away so, to cover all eventualities, we have provided you with information about ALL currently planned changes to ensure employers and managers are prepared...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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Euromillions
...uthorities positively encourage the public to name and shame offenders for everything from fly tipping to dog fouling to trading standards abuses. In the sphere of health and safety enforcement, the HSE decided back in its Revitalising Health and Safety strategy in 2000 that it would name and shame companies convicted of health and safety offences and publish them on its website, something it does at the `HSE Public Register of Convictions'. In the lengthy debate over the introduction of corporate manslaughter legislation and remember, we waited 11 years for this to actually hit the statute books ...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Killing time
...ronmental Permitting Programme from April 2008, which will combine and streamline the previous waste management licence (WML) and pollution prevention and control (PPC) systems. 13241 The Information and Consultation regulations are being further extended from 6 April 2008, when they will apply to companies employing between 50 and 100 staff. Currently the legislation applies only to businesses with over 100 employees. 13241 The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force in the UK on 6 April 2008. The legislation should make it easier to prosecute companies and other larg...
Magazine issue | 27 Feb 2008
