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EEF urges HSE to resist directors’ duties
3 February 2010
The manufacturers’ organisation EEF is using evidence from its latest annual health and safety survey to call on HSE board members to resist calls for new positive legal duties on…
MP introduces Bill on directors’ duties
21 January 2010
Backbench Labour MP Frank Doran has introduced a Private Members’ Bill to amend the Health and Safety at Work Act and place a positive duty on company directors to ensure…
£100,000 fine for crush death
6 November 2009
Pet food manufacturer Butcher’s Pet Care has been fined £100,000 six years after a palletising machine at is Northamptonshire factory crushed an employee to death. The family firm’s operations director,…
Articles
Down to penalties
12 January 2010
The revised proposals for guidance to judges on how to set corporate manslaughter and fatality fines has polarised opinion, reports David Bergman.
Talking out of turn
5 January 2010
Stuart Armstrong reveals common tactics used by the police and HSE inspectors in interviews after workplace incidents.
Directors' duties: points in favour
12 October 2009
David Bergman reviews some of the wealth of evidence for a director’s safety duty.
Directors' duties: there's room at the top
4 September 2009
Next spring, the HSE Board will decide whether or not to recommend to ministers that they introduce statutory health and safety duties for directors.
Directors' duties: there's room at the top
4 September 2009
Howard Fidderman explains why HSW and Health and Safety Bulletin are launching a campaign for directors’ statutory health and safety duties.
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