HSE and Environment Agency Prosecution: The New Climate

Charlotte Waters is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP specialising in major incident response following construction and engineering disasters and complex major property damage claims arising out of construction and design defects, fire, flood, theft impact and subsidence.Mike Appleby is a partner at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP and specialises in defending directors, senior individuals and companies facing investigation or prosecution for health and safety offences or manslaughter arising from work related incidents.Dr Louise Smail is a specialist Risk and Safety Consultant at Fisher Scoggins Waters LLP and has extensive experience in the field of risk management with a wide range of organisations. She is an expert in the field of health and safety at work and corporate manslaughter.

• Part 1 Managing Risk1 Corporate Governance, Directors’ Duties 2 Risk Management 3 Business Continuity Part 2 The Law4 Manslaughter and Health and Safety Offences 5 Health and Safety Enforcement Notices, Fee for Intervention (FFI) and Cautions 6 Environmental Offences 7 Environmental Notices and Sanctions 8 Fire Safety Offences and Notices Part 3 Enforcement and Sentencing9 Enforcement Agencies and Enforcement Policies 10 RIDDOR and Internal Investigations 11 Responding to a Criminal Investigation 12 Prosecution – the Court Process 13 Sentencing Part 4 Inquests and Claims14 Coroners’ Inquests and Public Inquiry 15 Civil Claims 16 Insurance

...a practical work that for the first time has sought to synthesize critical aspects of health and safety law and environmental law as it affects corporations and those who manage them...This valuable work thus provides organisations with an insight into how to manage risk in two important regulatory environments.