Health & Safety
Our Health & Safety Team has a great deal of experience providing safety and risk management advice, leading and supporting on safety incident investigations and defending health and safety enforcement action, including prosecutions.
We act for national and international clients across a diverse range of sectors, delivering clear and commercially-focused advice. We help our clients to devise policies and procedures, develop staff training, review existing compliance measures and help them implement effective crisis management systems.
When it comes to handling high-profile incidents – including multiple fatalities and public disasters, we’ve experts within our team who can help. From crisis management support in the immediate aftermath, through the investigatory phases and right up to the conclusion of an incident, our specialist lawyers are on hand to guide and advise you through the process and drawing on our experience of managing Police and Health and Safety Executive investigations.
We also defend companies and their directors charged with corporate manslaughter or health and safety breaches and our lawyers regularly appear in the criminal and Coroner’s courts to represent our client’s interests.
We have decades of experience in health and safety law and our specialists are always available, 24/7, to provide immediate incident response and support to our clients.
Our experience includes:
- Advising and leading in incident investigations following serious incidents/fatalities.
- Leading or supporting incident management
- Gathering and reviewing investigation evidence and advising on criminal and civil liability
- Supporting clients to challenge enforcement notices issued by local authorities and the Health and Safety Executive
- Representing clients in Magistrates Court and Crown Court prosecutions
- Advising on safety risk management, safety management systems and business continuity planning
- Providing legal reviews of your ‘safety systems’
- Advising on safety issues in corporate transactions
- Offering 24/7/365 Rapid Response and on-site, incident support.
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