A leading North West law firm is urging engineering firms to review their health and safety polices, since tough new sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter offences have now come into force. Mace & Jones dispute resolution specialist Ken Salmon says that, under the new rules set out by the Sentencing Guidelines Council, businesses convicted of corporate manslaughter can be fined millions of pounds with a £500,000 minimum.
For other health and safety offences that cause death, fines from £100,000 up to hundreds of thousands of pounds could be imposed.
