NEWS
HUGE INCREASE IN COMPANY
FINES FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY
OFFENCES
New sentencing guidelines for courts dealing with corporate manslaughter,
health and safety, and food safety offences were published recently.
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causing an outbreak of food poisoning due to a lack of
proper hygiene at a food processing plant
neglecting residents at a residential care home
inadequate risk assessments on a building site where
someone subsequently suffers an injury.
Previously, only corporate manslaughter and health
and safety offences causing death were covered by specific
guidelines and there was a sense that the process of
calculating fines was insufficiently rigorous. Also, because
courts do not deal regularl