September 17th, 2008
Corporate Manslaughter - What You Need To Know
The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on 6 April 2008, and all businesses must therefore take a look at their existing health and safety regulations, if they don’t want to face an unlimited fine plus potential humiliation by ‘name and shame’.
The new offence of corporate manslaughter is committed where an organisation commits a ‘gross breach’ of a ‘relevant duty of care’, leading to a person’s death. This recent change to corporate law and health and safety law means that it will no longer be necessary to identify an individual director guilty of gross negligence, all that is required is an organisational or gross management failing causing death.
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