In a multi-occupancy site, individual employers need to work with each other, as well as with landlords and contractors, so that everyone knows exactly who is responsible for what and where. Without this, hazards can too easily slip through the net until something goes wrong or someone gets hurt. Where do your safety duties begin and end? Lucie Ponting finds out.

When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing

Howard Fidderman | Features | HSB | 27.02.2008

Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, how have the courts been sentencing employers convicted of health and safety crimes? And what will be the impact of the new sentencing guidelines for manslaughter when they come into force later this year? Howard Fidderman believes that sentencing should not be left to the courts.

Stair fall fatality

News | HSP | 13.02.2008

Heavy rice sacks cost food firm £53,000

Prosecutions and Claims | 04.02.2008

A food firm which allowed employees to balance on pallets on fork-lift trucks and unload 50kg sacks of rice by hand has been ordered to pay £53,000.

Updated: Asda pays £267,000 for car park death

Prosecutions and Claims | 22.01.2008

Supermarket chain Asda has been fined £225,000 plus costs after admitting safety failures over the death of a customer in a store car park.

Asda pays £267,000 for car park death

Features | HSP | 22.01.2008

Supermarket chain Asda has been fined £225,000 plus costs after admitting safety failures over the death of Kenneth Farr, who was killed when a security barrier smashed through the windscreen of his car as he drove into the car park of Asda's Cardiff Bay store.

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When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing

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Updated: Asda pays £267,000 for car park death

Asda pays £267,000 for car park death

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