Changes in Sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences are starting to have an impact with health and safety fines totalling £20.6 million being served between February 2016 and August 2016 compared to £14.4 million between February 2015 and August 2015 – a 40% increase. There has also been an impact on individual prosecutions particularly [...]

A property management company has been fined £120,000 after a 29-year-old died falling down a lift shaft, after he became trapped and attempted to escape having been unable to raise the alarm. The incident occurred when two men, one a resident in the building, were trapped in a lift and were unable to raise the alarm. They attempted to escape by forcing the [...]

The new sentencing guidelines that have seen an increase in fines and possibility of prison sentencing is already having an impact with a number of individuals being prosecuted for breaching health and safety legislation. In one of the latest cases a manager of an access plant hire firm has been sentenced to a maximum penalty [...]