Health and Safety Newsletter

Welcome to the latest Health and Safety Newsletter, bringing you the latest updates on Health & Safety cases and their wider implications for the industry. This edition covers the following:

• First charges brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
• Sentencing Guidelines for Corporate Manslaughter delayed
• Health and Safety at Work Act applied to offshore renewables
• ICL Plastics factory explosions - report published
• LPG pipework survey
• Scotland: expenses now available in fatal inquiries
• Fatal Accident Inquiry review released
• DECC and DWP consults on restructuring of HSE's Nuclear Directorate
• Proposals for new 'fit note' unveiled
• New Sanctions for Regulators:  The Regulatory Enforcement and Sanctions Act 2008
• New stress management guidance published
• Report on shiftwork
• Names of those killed at work to be published
• Focus on: driving at work
• Update: Coroners and Justice Bill
• Update: Damages Bill - Pleural Plaques
• New workplace safety poster
• HSE strategy - be part of the solution
• Case Law
• Health and Safety - what we do