Health and Safety Newsletter - August 2009

United Kingdom

Welcome to the latest Health and Safety Newsletter, bringing you the latest updates on Health & Safety cases and their wider implications for the industry. This edition covers the following:

  • First charges brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
  • Sentencing Guidelines for Corporate Manslaughter delayed
  • Health and Safety at Work Act applied to offshore renewables
  • ICL Plastics factory explosions - report published
  • LPG pipework survey
  • Scotland: expenses now available in fatal inquiries
  • Fatal Accident Inquiry review released
  • DECC and DWP consults on restructuring of HSE's Nuclear Directorate
  • Proposals for new 'fit note' unveiled
  • New Sanctions for Regulators: The Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008
  • New stress management guidance published
  • Report on shiftwork
  • Names of those killed at work to be published
  • Focus on: driving at work
  • Update: Coroners and Justice Bill
  • Update: Damages Bill - Pleural Plaques
  • New workplace safety poster
  • HSE strategy - be part of the solution
  • Case Law
  • Health and Safety - what we do

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