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Thompsons Solicitors   Thompsons condemns scaremongering on health and safety law

Leading health and safety lawyers have described claims that workplace health and safety laws will result in employees being personally liable for accidents as dangerous scaremongering.

Thompsons Solicitors, the UK's largest personal injury claimant practice and trade union law firm, described a report by the organisation Public Concern at Work, Speak up or Pay up, as irresponsible in claiming that the new Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations will force employees to blow the whistle on unsafe working practices or risk being personally liable for injury caused to fellow workers.

Employees have had criminal duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act for 30 years and that duty, under the Management of Health and Safety at Work regulations, has been criminally enforceable for 12 years.

Tony Lawton, head of health and safety for Thompsons said: "The fact is that these laws have existed for decades and you can count the number of prosecutions of individual employees on one hand. Employees have no money. They will not be sued. That is the whole point of vicarious liability. We are confident that the courts will continue to place the primary onus for safety issues where it properly lies, with the employers.

"While Thompsons would condemn any attempt to shift the burden of responsibility for health and safety on to individual workers, it is ludicrous to suggest that employees will have to take out personal insurance against the risk of being sued. However, the government, employers and insurance industry should be in no doubt that Thompsons and the trade unions will seriously fight any attempt to shift that burden." Thompsons Solicitors


 


     
     
   

 

 

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Blake Lapthorn Linnell  

In the complex legal field of Health and Safety the expert lawyers at Blake Lapthorn Linnell can minimise the risks to your business and skilfully defend any action against you.

The past 30 years have seen an ever increasing emphasis on Health and Safety, both in and out of the workplace. This has been matched by a greater willingness on the part of courts, both civil and criminal, to widen the scope of duties of care and to back this up with greater penalties and compensation awards.

Blake Lapthorn Linnell's Health and Safety group draws together the experience and skills of lawyers from a variety of backgrounds, including local authority and private practice. As a result, it can look at issues from every viewpoint and can feed its extensive experience of past cases into your management systems.

Involving Blake Lapthorn Linnell's Health and Safety group in your business means that your Health and Safety procedures can be set firmly into a legal framework that governs your relationship with other businesses and other aspects of regulatory law.

The group works on the maxim that prevention is better than cure, but if you are unfortunate enough to be the subject of a claim or investigation, the group can provide experienced personal injury litigators to defend the claim and seasoned lawyers with a background in criminal law to ensure the most effective response to the investigation.

Unlike many other firms in this field, the group's lawyers, although they are experienced in prosecuting in other regulatory fields, do not prosecute for the Health & Safety Executive or for local authorities. Blake Lapthorn Linnell

Sydney Mitchell Solicitors  

HEALTH & SAFETY REGULATIONS
Regulation now affects most businesses in one form or another; it could be through legislation relating to health & safety, trading standards, data protection, financial services or environmental issues. The regulators have wide powers to search premises, obtain witness statements, impose sanctions on businesses and senior managers and prosecute individuals and companies for breaches of regulatory legislation.

Our regulatory team are able to deal with a variety of matters including:
• Heath & Safety
• Trading Standards
• Food Safety
• Public Inquiry hearings

This trend of growth in regulation is likely to continue and businesses should take steps to minimise the risk of prosecution. This should include reviewing existing policies, procedures and documentation to ensure they are fully compliant and to have a contingency plan in place when things go wrong. Sydney Mitchell Solicitors

 




 

   

 

     
     
   

 

 

   

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