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Health and Safety Sentencing

Companies and individuals can now expect larger fines and longer prison sentences for breaches of health and safety law. Larger companies in particular risk multi-million pound penalties for the most serious breaches of health and safety law. Directors and safety managers must take note of the reforms, and consider what effect such fines would have on their business if they were to be...

New guide to improve consumer product safety recalls

It was announced in January 2018 that the Government was strengthening the UK's product safety regime by creating a new body in the wake of recent warnings. The newly formed Office for Product Safety and Standards will manage responses to large scale product recalls and identify risks to consumers.