Welcome to the first edition of our new monthly health and safety newsletter. The newsletter is designed to keep you up to date with all current news and will cover decisions of the Courts in health and safety cases.
This edition reports on the decision of the Supreme Court in asbestos claims, the new online accredited health and safety consultants register and the £400,000 fine handed down in a fatality case.
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The Supreme Court has handed down a landmark ruling that individuals exposed to minimal amounts of asbestos that go on to contract mesothelioma are entitled to compensation.
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, the first company convicted of Corporate Manslaughter, have applied for permission to appeal their conviction.
The Government has announced a series of measures to reduce the unnecessary burden placed on business as a result of health and safety legislation.
On 21 March 2011 HSE launched the new online register for health and safety consultants, which contains the details of more than 1600 accredited consultants.
Calsonic Kansei UK Limited has been fined for the death of one of their employees the day he was due to take voluntary redundancy.
Arcadia Group Limited and Vincents (Shopfitters) Limited have been fined following exposing workers to asbestos fibres during the refurbishment of the Topshop store in Liverpool.
Research has revealed that the “dread factor” instilled in employees following hands on safety training which demonstrates the severity of consequences if they get something wrong, is the most effective mechanism of improving safe work behaviour.
HSE has completed a Crown Censure against a Ministry of Defence Laboratory following the death of one of its employees. Modest sentence following fatal accident rewards defendants' approach Weightmans' Regulatory Service Unit represented sister companies Brookhouse Composites Limited and Brookhouse Tooling Limited in connection with a prosecution arising from a fatal accident in December 2008.