Waters, C: Hse and Environment Agency Prosecution: The New C

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5265-0322-0
Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic

Buch, Englisch, 536 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Sentencing guidelines impose tough penalties for health and safety and environmental offences: how can you avoid them?

The introduction of the sentencing guidelines in February 2016 has seen health and safety prosecutions treble, particularly in relation to corporate manslaughter, with tougher penalties imposed and fines exceeding £20 million being handed down. With fines having a detrimental effect on both turnover and reputation, how can companies protect themselves?

HSE and Environment Agency Prosecution: The New Climate is an accessible reference work that provides guidance to ensure that companies have the correct, stringent risk management and procedures in place in order to protect themselves against exposure to such fines.

Through the use of worked cases studies, checklists and charts the expert advice provided is put into context, whether you are a practitioner needing to advise your client, a company director, an in-house lawyer, or a health and safety professional.

Split into four sections, this new title covers:

Managing Risk; The Law; Enforcement and Sentencing; Inquests and Claims.

This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law online service.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Waters, Charlotte

Appleby, Mike

Smail, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Betriebliches Energie- und Umweltmanagement
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Managing Risk
1 Corporate Governance, Directors' Duties
2 Risk Management
3 Business Continuity
Part 2 The Law
4 Manslaughter and Health and Safety Offences
5 Health and Safety Enforcement Notices, Fee for Intervention (FFI) and Cautions
6 Environmental Offences
7 Environmental Notices and Sanctions
8 Fire Safety Offences and Notices
Part 3 Enforcement and Sentencing
9 Enforcement Agencies and Enforcement Policies
10 RIDDOR and Internal Investigations
11 Responding to a Criminal Investigation
12 Prosecution - the Court Process
13 Sentencing
Part 4 Inquests and Claims
14 Coroners' Inquests and Public Inquiry
15 Civil Claims
16 Insurance

Über Autor(innen)

Waters, Charlotte
Charlotte Waters is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP specialising in major incident response following construction and engineering disasters and complex major property damage claims arising out of construction and design defects, fire, flood, theft impact and subsidence.

Appleby, Mike
Mike Appleby is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP Solicitors and specialises in defending directors, senior individuals and companies facing investigation or prosecution for health and safety offences or manslaughter arising from work related incidents.

Smail, Louise
Dr Louise Smail has extensive experience in the field of environmental law, climate change and risk management with a wide range of organisations, including local government, police, manufacturing and many train operating companies. Louise has worked as a principal consultant and director of two international consulting groups. She works on high profile projects looking at business risk evaluation and performance at board level, as well as the impact of changes in environmental legislation in both the UK and Europe. Louise is a co-author of The Law of Renewable Energy and HSE and Environment Agency Prosecution: The New Climate, both published by Bloomsbury Professional.

Charlotte Waters is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP specialising in major incident response following construction and engineering disasters and complex major property damage claims arising out of construction and design defects, fire, flood, theft impact and subsidence.
Mike Appleby is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP and specialises in defending directors, senior individuals and companies facing investigation or prosecution for health and safety offences or manslaughter arising from work related incidents.
Dr Louise Smail is a specialist Risk and Safety Consultant at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP and has extensive experience in the field of risk management with a wide range of organisations. She is an expert in the field of health and safety at work and corporate manslaughter.