The phrase ‘health and safety gone mad’ will have been heard, perhaps even muttered, by many of you, and like political correctness, it has become something of a byword for excessive corporate cosseting. But the important message behind the sneers is that we never again want to return to the days when greedy bosses put their workers’ lives at risk by allowing them to work in dangerous conditions.
Health and safety, these days, though, isn’t all about people falling into farm or factory machinery; there are many more mundane ways in which businesses could fall foul of the law.
In this feature, we speak to professionals who are experts in this field to find out what companies need to do to avoid being charged with anything from a simple lapse in procedures, all the way up to corporate manslaughter.
Editorial deadline: 17th September 2010
Editorial contact: Kate Simpson 0161 907 9695
Ad copy deadline: 17th September 2010
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Wild 0161 907 9747
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