Health and Safety Newsletter May 2011

United Kingdom

Welcome to the Health and Safety Newsletter, which contains updates on the latest Health & Safety cases and their implications for directors and businesses.

This edition covers:

  • Update: Potters Bar Rail Accident Prosecution
  • HSE publishes Delivery Plan for 2011/2012
  • Crown Censure for MOD
  • HSE publishes Impact Evaluation on CDM Regulations
  • Greenpeace Challenges Oil and Gas Licenses
  • Government cuts HSE inspections
  • Fukushima disaster prompts UK review and creation of new regulator
  • Shale gas hits the headlines
  • Inquiry into effectiveness of Health and Safety Regulation in Scotland
  • Decision on the damages (asbestos-related conditions) (Scotland) Act 2009
  • Focus on: Corporate Manslaughter
  • Case Law
  • Health and Safety - What we do

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