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Firms still unaware of Corporate Manslaughter implications
...ered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) highlights that businesses' understanding of the possible implications of a prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act is worryingly low. The survey of 500 business decision-makers revealed that 57% of businesses are unaware that they could be subject to a publicity order if found guilty of a fatal accident at work. The possibility of such an order is one of the new aspects of the Act. A Publicity Orders means the Court can order that the particulars of the offence, conviction, any fine and the terms of any remedia...
News | 24 Jun 2009
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...to the huge popularity of these sites, especially as Facebook is not even Russia's most popular one. With 3.5 billion minutes spent on Facebook each day worldwide it is no wonder there's no time to talk. Despite this, `The Voice of Small Business 2009' survey by BT Business showed that 56% of small firms opted for personal customer interaction (face to face) as opposed to 21% for phone, 15% for email and 5% direct mail. Only one in five use social networks to `reach out,' proving that face to face interaction in business is not dead. The office is a social community an often underrated one an...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Contractors: are you watching them?
...t contractors are up to, but this has left them open to the threat of damaging prosecutions. The inescapable truth of the matter is that you -- as the client -- are responsible. Katy Brown reports. E mploying contractors to carry out specific tasks in the workplace is now common practice in large firms; from cleaning to construction, people are being brought in to fulfil certain roles not performed by employed staff. This is beneficial to employers, who do not need to employ individuals to carry out these tasks. But it does bring its own set of confusions. Jobs that are contracted out can be part...
Magazine issue | 16 May 2007
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
...ce, and as such the issue was dedicated to the topic. One year later, this special birthday issue revisits the subject to establish how far we have come since that date. Although by October 2004 employers and service providers had had years to get to grips with their duties under the Act, many were still confused as to what it meant for them when the deadline hit. For example, a number of businesses were failing to understand what the term `reasonable adjustment' meant, assuming that it always led to physical alterations. There was also an apparent lack of understanding as to what constituted a `di...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...ce, and as such the issue was dedicated to the topic. One year later, this special birthday issue revisits the subject to establish how far we have come since that date. Although by October 2004 employers and service providers had had years to get to grips with their duties under the Act, many were still confused as to what it meant for them when the deadline hit. For example, a number of businesses were failing to understand what the term `reasonable adjustment' meant, assuming that it always led to physical alterations. There was also an apparent lack of understanding as to what constituted a `di...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...1 Safety consultants' register to launch A new national register of occupational safety consultants will be set up to help employers access `good quality, proportionate advice', the HSE has confirmed. The Occupational Safety Consultants Register (OSCR) will go live in January 2011. It will provide firms with details of consultants who have met the highest qualification standard of recognised professional bodies and who are bound by a code of conduct that requires them to only give advice that is `sensible and proportionate'. The register has been developed by the HSE and a network of professional ...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Evacuation versus invacuation
...rational objectives of the force when assessing whether he should have been placed on the scheme. The Tribunal, in particular, should have considered the need to free up suitable posts for officers on restricted duties who were still in active service. Impact on employers Although this decision confirms that employers may take into account their own operational objectives in deciding what adjustments to make, decisions should be reasonable and should take into account all the circumstances. 15251 Employer that didn't follow own policy still made reasonable adjustments In Arthur v. Northern Irelan...
Magazine issue | 10 Jul 2008
