Corporate Manslaughter, Enforcement and the Boardroom
After 10 years of waiting, the law on Corporate Manslaughter was finally changed last year and this year we will see the first prosecutions under the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act. The Health & Safety Offences Act was introduced in January 2009, which will allow increased penalties and the possibility of company directors being imprisoned for a breach of health
and safety.
Police have already arrested managers at their workplace as part of corporate manslaughter investigations and are taking a very wide interpretation of who is a senior manager for the purposes of the act. Even with recessionary pressures to cut costs health & safety must be taken seriously.
Directors’ and senior managers’ actions and omissions will be under the microscope as never before. They, in turn, will have increased expectations of health & safety practitioners, HR professionals and facilities managers to protect the organisation.
This conference will explain exactly what you need to be aware of following these important changes.
