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When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing


Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, little has changed from the abject situation that we reported two years ago. True, average fines continue to rise, and the level at which fines were once deemed "extraordinary" - £100,000 and above - is looking less unusual every month. But underlying this, most fines - particularly those imposed on larger companies - are unlikely to make much of a dent in their directors' annual bonuses, let alone the company's profits.

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