The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is a landmark in UK law. Companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care.
The Act, which came into force on 6 April 2008, clarifies the criminal liabilities of companies including large organisations where serious failures in the management of health and safety result in a fatality.
June 6, 2022
A construction company has been fined for not having safety measures in place for working at height which caused the fall and death of an 86-year-old woman. Read More
April 21, 2022
A transport and haulage company was sentenced after a worker died after falling from the rear of a transport shipping container. Read More
March 30, 2022
A company and three of its bosses have been fined more than £2m over the death of a worker who suffered catastrophic head injuries at a scrap metal recycling plant. Read More
February 24, 2022
Managers at a recycling firm where a scrap metal worker was killed after suffering head injuries have admitted health and safety failures. Read More
January 10, 2022
2021 saw some huge fines for the likes of Vue Entertainment, Drayton Manor, British Airways and NHS Trust, a £4m fine for National Grid and a £6.5m fine following the death of an 11-year-old boy at a freight terminal. Read More
November 18, 2021
Two companies have been fined following an incident where a security guard died after being found lying face down and hypothermic, in deep snow, at a remote hillside in Ayrshire. Read More
November 16, 2021
A concrete supplier has been fined after an agency worker contracted to work at its site suffered fatal injuries following a tyre explosion. Read More
November 15, 2021
A company has been fined after an employee was struck by an excavator and fatally crushed. Read More
November 13, 2021
The accident occurred when an employee was passing through an automatic gate in the machinery yard when the gate closed on him and he sustained fatal injuries. Read More
November 9, 2021
The Managing Director of a scaffolding company has been fined after an employee died when he was struck from behind by a forklift truck. Read More