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Directors’ Health and Safety Responsibilities Conference
From liability to leadership
- How exposed to prosecutions are your directors?
- What are the enforcement implications?
- Is your organisation reporting openly on performance?
- How can directors lead the management of health and safety?
In the decade it has taken to secure the introduction of the new offence of Corporate Manslaughter (CM), there has been a growing focus on the health and safety responsibilities of directors and senior managers in all organisations.
Increasingly health and safety is now accepted as a board level corporate performance issue, an important dimension of Corporate Social Responsibility on which organisations should report to their stakeholders. The Health and Safety Executive have continued to focus on the business benefits of effective health and safety management while continuing to bear down on poor performers.
In future, in the event of accidents resulting in death, prosecution of organisations for the offence of corporate manslaughter cannot be ruled out. And where prosecutions are taken under health and safety law the enforcing authorities will also be looking to see if directors or senior managers can be prosecuted as well the organisation. New guidance is being developed to set benchmarks for director leadership of health and safety.
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