Welcome to the Health and Safety Newsletter, which contains updates on the latest Health & Safety cases and their implications for directors and businesses.

This edition covers:

  • Changes to RIDDOR come into effect;
  • Consultation launched on abolition of Health and Safety rules;
  • Cameron pledges to 'take the fear' out of the Health and Safety 'monster';
  • Findings announced in first Fatal Accident Inquiry to be re-opened twice;
  • HSE to charge employers who contravene Health and Safety law for their enforcement costs;
  • Cases;
  • Company fined after unguarded machinery death;
  • Global steel firm prosecuted after workers crushed;
  • Mining company sentenced for safety failings that cost four lives;
  • Companies fined after Arsenal stadium injury;
  • Housebuilder fined after child seriously injured;
  • Global manufacturer prosecuted over factory worker's death Oil and Gas focus;
  • Focus on: The European Commisson's proposal to regulate offshore oil and gas and the EU legislative process;
  • Oil and Gas UK announce position against EC proposal to regulate offshore safety;
  • Independent review of the UK offshore oil and gas regime published;
  • DECC clarification of environmental guidance for operations published;
  • Health and Safety - what we do.

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The original publication date for this article was 26/03/2012.