Corporate Homicide: 2 Years on

How has the legislation changed your health and safety procedures?

13 April 2010, Edinburgh

Keynote speaker: Elaine Taylor, Head of Health and Safety Division, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Services

Featured Speakers include: David Watt, Director, Institute of Directors; Iain Tasker, Assistant Secretary, Scottish Trade Union Congress; Gavin Anderson, Advocate, Westwater Advocates; Tom Stocker, Partner, McGrigors; Brian Mitchell, Personnel Manager (Health and Safety), Renfrewshire Council, Prof Russel Griggs OBE, CBI Scotland, Fraser Allan, CBES

Further speakers to be announced

How does the Corporate Homicide (Scotland) Act 2007 affect you and your organisation? Do you understand the penalties that you and your organisation could incur? This one day conference invites your thoughts and opinions on the legislation and whether it goes far enough? Tom Stocker from McGrigors will be posing different questions and scenarios to test you, the audience, on your health and safety procedures. So, whether you are confident or have things you are unsure about, you cannot afford to miss this conference. 

Background Information:

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into law in April last year. It introduced an offence for companies and other organisations where gross failures in the management of health and safety have taken place resulting in fatal consequences. This offence is called Corporate Manslaughter in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and Corporate Homicide in Scotland.

In Scotland the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Services has launched a specialist Health and Safety Division following the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.  The Lord Advocate, the Rt Hon Elish Angiolini QC, launched the Division in October 2008. The Division allows specialist prosecutors to lead the investigations and prosecutions of health and safety cases across Scotland. It provides advice, support and direction from the very earliest stages of the investigation.

The specialist Division will lead the investigation into a number of high-profile cases - including the Super Puma helicopter, which crashed into the North Sea last April, killing sixteen and the loss of the Flying Phantom tug on the River Clyde in December 2007 in which three people were killed. The Division is led by senior prosecutor Elaine Taylor, and has units in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow which include eight specialist prosecutors out of a team of sixteen.

This conference will ask whether the legislation has changed the way we view our health and safety procedures. It will explaind the Health and Safety Division, its remit and its approach to breaches of health and safety under the 2007 Act and Health and Safety legislation.

The aim of this conference is for delegates to:

• Examine the specialist Health and Safety Division.
• Explore the role of the Procurator Fiscal.
• Understand how this will improve the efficiency of health and safety prosecutions.
• Hear from leading professionals in the field.
• Plan for their organisations to minimize risk of prosecution.
• Learn the cost of failing to implement effective prevention.

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If you have any queries or would like find out more information, please email mailto:jwilson@mackayhannah.com

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private sector
Standard - £235.00 + VAT
public sector
Reduced - £190.00 + VAT
professional bodies, trade unions, charities with turnover greater than £1M, universities and colleges
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