We have extensive experience of dealing with regulatory agencies such as Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency and local authority trading standards. These enforcement authorities cover an ever widening sphere of business activities and have a wide range of statutory powers to regulate activities protect the public interest.
We provide full service health and safety advice including:
- crisis management
- fatalities including the new corporate manslaughter legislation
- prosecutions
- Improvement and prohibition notices
- routine incidents and investigations
- compliance
- policy advice
Again a sensitive area of the law regulated by the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and the “six pack” regulations. We have people who again have defended and prosecuted these cases who have acted for businesses and local authorities. Again we can advise on the “Friskies factors” (aggravating and mitigating circumstances) and fining levels, but we also have Health and Safety consultants who can advise on written and practical procedures to avoid prosecutions being brought by the Local Authority or the Health and Safety Executive in the first place.
