HR news and analysis including: shadow work and pensions secretary of state Chris Grayling speaks exclusively to Personnel Today about cutting health and safety red tape, and solving skills shortages with the 'Jeremy Kyle' generatio  More...
10 October 2008 16:42

The threat of knife crime is persuading increasing numbers of employers to provide staff with stab vests to protect them if they are attacked with a knife. Stab vest supplier the Body Armour Company said it had received about 10,000 orders for protec  More...
07 July 2008 10:40

A leading construction union has accused the government of complacency about workplace safety which is putting employees' lives at risk. Ucatt warned that the government's failure to toughen up company directors' responsibilities for health and safet  More...
03 July 2008 10:47

Rarely has a new piece of legislation had such a tortuous history as the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. But what does the Act,...  More...
16 June 2008 00:11

When it comes to stress and depression, employer obligations may extend further than you think.  More...
23 April 2008 17:42

The ">Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 , which comes into force on 6 April, was designed to send out a powerful deterrent message to employers to take health and safety issues seriously. The act will make prosecution easier and   More...
28 March 2008 17:14

Investigations into workplace fatalities could become more intensive after new corporate manslaughter law comes into force, experts have warned. Ray Hurst, president of the Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, said the change would giv  More...
27 March 2008 15:26

Getting to grips with the new corporate manslaughter law is still causing headaches for HR practitioners - just weeks before its introduction. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, which comes into effect on 6 April, will make org  More...
26 March 2008 11:41

The fines being handed down to companies, following work-related deaths, is only a fraction of their total annual turnover, new research has revealed. A report by campaign group, the Centre for Corporate Accountability (CCA), found that fines impose  More...
17 March 2008 15:19

What does the new Corporate Manslaughter Act mean for employers? Ross Bentley investigates. When the long-awaited Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force on 6 April it will create an offence that in England, Wal  More...
17 March 2008 10:00

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill, after a slow progression through Parliament and lengthy debate, received Royal Assent on 26 July 2007. It becomes law on 6 April 2008. Steffan Groch provides answers to some common questions o  More...
15 March 2008 15:18

What HR can do to minimise the risk of corporate manslaughter claims under the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act, including: What is changing in the law? (00m41s) What penalties do companies face? (05m15s) Includes news  More...
10 March 2008 10:31

Companies that break the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act should be named and shamed and hit by big fines, according to the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH). Other sanctions - including far-reaching impr  More...
04 March 2008 08:01

Training provider Safety Media ask Roy Thornley, a risk consultant specialising in the field of manslaughter by gross negligence, all about the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act . Thornley answers various q  More...
21 February 2008 16:30

Nearly half of senior managers and company directors do not have an up-to-date understanding of their health and safety-related duties and responsibilities, despite the arrival next month of the government’s long-awaited Corporate Manslaughter Act. T  More...
20 February 2008 14:10

Eight in 10 bosses are unprepared for the new workplace killing law which comes into force in just over two months, according to a poll. Senior managers could face jail for lapses in safety policy leading to staff fatalities after the Corporate Man  More...
30 January 2008 10:49

In the dock Organisations will soon be answerable for the actions or omissions of any senior manager if a death occurs. Kevin Elliott explains. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act , which comes into force in April 2008, appears  More...
13 December 2007 08:00

From April 2008, the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 will come into force. The Act reflects what appears to be the public's view, that companies and managers should be held more directly responsible for their employees'   More...
12 November 2007 10:20

In the wake of the recent Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act , we will be running a workshop on corporate risk and what HR directors should be warning the board about. After many years in the making, the Corporate Manslaughter an  More...
02 October 2007 00:00

The government's long-awaited Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill has finally received royal assent, more than a decade after Labour came to power. The Bill, which was part of the original 1997 Labour government's manifesto, creates a  More...
30 August 2007 08:00