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  1. Construction company’s health and safety fine increased eight-fold

    Scottish judges have substantially increased a fine payable by a construction company convicted last year of health and safety offences. Construction firm Discovery Homes (Scotland) Ltd were originally fined £5,000 following the death of Polish worker, Andrezej Freitag, in 2008 but now have to pay eight times the amount. At the original hearing in June 2009, the company was found guilty of a breach of section 2...

    Case | 30 Jun 2010

  2. First corporate manslaughter case unlikely to clarify Act

    ...pears to be taking no risks with the first prosecution under the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act. The first charge to be brought under the new Act is against a small family company where the directors have close involvement with the day-to-day running. According to Jon Cooper, Health and Safety specialist at Bond Pearce, this is unlikely to assist in understanding how the law will be applied to the majority of corporate UK. The prosecution is being brought against Gloucestershire-based Geotechnical Holdings Limited over the death of one of its employees. As well as the charge ...

    News | 29 Apr 2009

  3. HSE to keep ‘naming and shaming’ records for longer than five years

    It has been reported that companies which are ‘named and shamed’ in the HSE’s prosecutions and notices databases will no longer have their records wiped after five years. A HSE inspector has the power to order a company to make health and safety improvements by issuing them with a notice, it also has the power to prosecute a company if it feels that this is necessary. Through databases on its site the HSE ‘names and shames’ these companies by giving details of prosecution cases which resulted in a successful conviction, and ...

    News | 26 Jun 2006

  4. Is the HSE the ‘watchdog that dare not bite'?

    Millions of UK workers are being abandoned by the UK’s official health and safety watchdog, safety campaigners have claimed. In its bid to become more “employer friendly”, through embracing the Government’s pro-business 'better regulation' agenda, the HSE's 'top brass' have been found lacking over their legal duty to enforce criminal safety law, according to a...

    News | 14 Feb 2006

  5. New sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter

    The Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) has published its definitive guideline on corporate manslaughter sentencing. It sets out principles to guide courts in dealing with companies and organisations that cause death through a gross breach of care or where breaches of health and safety requirements are a significant cause of the death. The guidelines will come into effect from next week (15 February). The guidelines state that fines for companies and organisations found guilty of corporate manslaughter may be millions of pounds and should seldom be below £500,000. Fo...

    News | 11 Feb 2010

  6. Public hearing to be held over Barrow Legionnaire’s outbreak

    ...ively, there was an outbreak of Legionnaires' Disease in Barrow in July/August 2002. The source of the outbreak was traced to air-conditioning in Forum 28, a property in the centre of Barrow owned and run by the local Council. Barrow Borough Council pleaded guilty to a breach of Section 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, and was fined £125,000 at Preston Crown Court on 31 July 2006. Employee Gillian Beckingham was convicted under Section 7 of the Health and Safety at Work Act, and fined £15,000 on the same date. Both the Council and Beckingham were found not guilty of manslaughter. ...

    News | 31 Oct 2006

  7. Barrow Council launches enquiry into Legionnaires’ Disease outbreak

    A fresh inquiry is being held into the UK’s largest outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease that led to the deaths of seven people and affected hundreds more. As Workplace Law has extensively reported, Barrow Borough Council and Design Services Manager Gillian Beckingham were both fined over health and safety breaches which led to the outbreak. Barrow Council is now holding its own inquiry, which could lead to disciplinary action against staff. The outbreak in 2002 was traced to an air conditioning unit at the council-run arts centre, Forum 28, which sprayed infected water into an all...

    News | 1 Sep 2006

  8. New protection for businesses from animal rights extremists

    ...exemptions include where disclosure is likely to endanger the safety of any individual or would prejudice commercial interests, but it is currently uncertain how the exemptions will be applied in practice. 'Public authorities' are listed in Schedule 1 of that Act and include Government departments, health authorities and primary care trusts, governing bodies of most universities, and The Animal Procedures Committee. Under the Act members of the public may, for example, be able to obtain information from public authorities about contractors who have been engaged to build and run research faciliti...

    News | 23 May 2005