Business owners are being urged to review their health and safety procedures ahead of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 which received royal accent on the 26th of July 2007 and is due to come into effect on the 6th of April 2008.

Under the new offence, companies and organisations can be found liable for a work-related death if actions at a senior level amount to gross breach of a duty of care to the deceased following a systemic failure to manage safety within the business.

The legislation removes the need to find an individual responsible, making it easier to convict a business.

David Webb, Health and Safety Manager for JPD, advises Directors to evaluate their companies current Health and Safety management system themselves. “Involvement from the top level of an organisation will demonstrate that health and safety is a high priority for the business. It will also help ensure that practices are implemented correctly”, he said.

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