Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, providing an authoritative and practical guide to the key issues in health and safety enforcement from two leading specialists in this area. This fourth edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of health and safety inspectors' enforcement powers, the service and appeal of improvement
and prohibition notices, and the law relating to health and safety offences, as well as expanded coverage of work-related death investigations, corporate and gross negligence manslaughter prosecutions, inquests,
and the Coroner's procedure. The authors draw on their combined experience in the field to offer expert guidance on advising both individual and corporate clients while the inclusion of relevant extracts from the key statutes and the most important Health and Safety Regulations ensures ease of reference to the regulations.Comprehensively and meticulously updated, this edition now also covers the vastly changed regulatory landscape, including the HSE 'fees for
intervention', and provides a start-to-finish guide to criminal procedure in a health and safety case, including the recent changes to fines in the magistrates' courts. The authors also offer commentary on the new
sentencing guidelines in respect of health and safety offences and corporate manslaughter, which are expected in late 2015, and insightful analysis of important decisions and their practical implications, such as R v Tangerine & Veolia, and other recent case law.
Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice has become the leading text for practitioners in this complex and growing branch of the law, providing an authoritative and practical guide to the key issues in health and safety enforcement from two leading specialists in this area. This fourth edition continues to provide comprehensive coverage of health and safety inspectors' enforcement powers, the service and appeal of improvement
and prohibition notices, and the law relating to health and safety offences, as well as expanded coverage of work-related death investigations, corporate and gross negligence manslaughter prosecutions, inquests,
and the Coroner's procedure. The authors draw on their combined experience in the field to offer expert guidance on advising both individual and corporate clients while the inclusion of relevant extracts from the key statutes and the most important Health and Safety Regulations ensures ease of reference to the regulations.Comprehensively and meticulously updated, this edition now also covers the vastly changed regulatory landscape, including the HSE 'fees for
intervention', and provides a start-to-finish guide to criminal procedure in a health and safety case, including the recent changes to fines in the magistrates' courts. The authors also offer commentary on the new
sentencing guidelines in respect of health and safety offences and corporate manslaughter, which are expected in late 2015, and insightful analysis of important decisions and their practical implications, such as R v Tangerine & Veolia, and other recent case law.
1: The Enforcement Framework
2: The Reporting and Investigation of Health and Safety Incidents,
Breaches, and Offences
3: Advising Clients in Health and Safety Investigations
4: Improvement and Prohibition Notices
5: Legal Personality and Secondary Liability
6: Health and Safety Offences I: Breach of the Employer's General
Duties
7: Health and Safety Offences II: Breach of the General Duties
under HSWA 1974 ss 4, 6, and 7
8: Breach of Regulations and Other Health and Safety Offences: HSWA
1974 s 33(1)(b)-(o)
9: Criminal Procedure
10: Sentencing
11: Work-Related Deaths and Manslaughter Offences
12: Coroner's Inquests and Work-Related Deaths
13: Commonly Enforced Regulations
Appendices
Appendix A: The Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974
(extracts)
Appendix B: Sentencing Guidelines Council Definitive Guideline
Health and Safety - Organisations
Appendix C: Sentencing Guidelines Council Definitive Guideline
Health and Safety - Individuals
Appendix D: Sentencing Guidelines Council Definitive Guideline
Corporate Manslaughter
Appendix E: The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations
1999 (extracts)
Appendix F: Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as
amended) (extracts)
Appendix G: Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998
(as amended) (extracts)
Appendix H: The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
Regulations 2002 (as amended) (extracts)
Appendix I: The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations
2015 (extracts)
Appendix J: The Work at Height Regulations 2005 (as amended)
(extracts)
Appendix K: The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 (extracts)
Richard Matthews QC is a barrister at 2 Bedford Row in London,
where he specializes in health and safety enforcement and gross
negligence and corporate manslaughter. He has acted for both the
prosecution and the defence in a great number of high profile
health and safety cases and corporate and gross negligence trials
over many years and has been Standing Counsel to the Health and
Safety Executive since May 2004. He has vast experience of inquests
involving
work-related deaths.
James Ageros QC is a barrister practising exclusively in health and
safety and environmental law at Crown Office Chambers in London. He
has been involved in many of the most legally significant health
and safety cases of the past few years, acting for both the
prosecution and the defence alongside additional court and advisory
work. He has been a Specialist Regulatory Advocate in Health and
Safety and Environmental Law since 2012.
`Review from previous edition Review from second edition
"This is a long-awaited sequel to the first edition, which broke
new ground in providing a definitive guide intended for all those
interested in health and safety law. It will be a brave health and
safety lawyer who ventures to court without it!"'
Richard Turfitt, Former Health & Safety Executive
`"a rich, superb and much needed legal practitioners' book on
health and safety enforcement...full of constructive and intricate
details that only eminent pratitioners can deliver. Well worth
reading."'
Sally Rampage, The Criminal Lawyer
`"...a practitioner text which combines an impressive depth of
analysis, together in one volume with most of the statutory
material required for day to day reference. Those looking to
establish a practice in this area would be well advised to invest
in a copy of Health and Safety Enforcement"'
Thom Dyke, Solicitors Journal
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