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:
- Changes to RIDDOR come into effect;
- Consultation launched on abolition of Health and Safety rules;
- Cameron pledges to 'take the fear' out of the Health and Safety 'monster';
- Findings announced in first Fatal Accident Inquiry to be re-opened twice;
- HSE to charge employers who contravene Health and Safety law for their enforcement costs;
- Cases;
- Company fined after unguarded machinery death;
- Global steel firm prosecuted after workers crushed;
- Mining company sentenced for safety failings that cost four lives;
- Companies fined after Arsenal stadium injury;
- Housebuilder fined after child seriously injured;
- Global manufacturer prosecuted over factory worker's death Oil and Gas focus;
- Focus on: The European Commisson's proposal to regulate offshore oil and gas and the EU legislative process;
- Oil and Gas UK announce position against EC proposal to regulate offshore safety;
- Independent review of the UK offshore oil and gas regime published;
- DECC clarification of environmental guidance for operations published;
- Health and Safety - what we do.
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Law-Now information is for general purposes and guidance only. The information and opinions expressed in all Law-Now articles are not necessarily comprehensive and do not purport to give professional or legal advice. All Law-Now information relates to circumstances prevailing at the date of its original publication and may not have been updated to reflect subsequent developments.
The original publication date for this article was 26/03/2012.
