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Buyers Prepare To Face New Liability From U.K. Corp. Manslaughter Law.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 25-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Companies that travel to or within the United Kingdom are scrambling to improve relevant health and safety processes, such as policies and risk assessments, before the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act comes into force April 6. The United Kingdom will consider prosecutions for any work-related deaths that occur there, regardless of whether the employee's organization is registered there. Although this already is possible under the existing Health and Safety at Work Act, enacted in 1974, the major new development is that "courts will look at management systems and practices across the organization, providing a more effective means for prosecuting the worst corporate failures to manage health and safety properly," said the recently formed U.K. Ministry of Justice.

Under the new legislation, individual senior managers will not face criminal charges, but their organizations will be liable for substantial fines. These have not yet been set, but current proposals are for 2.5 percent to...

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