{"id":22904,"date":"2014-03-04T10:59:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/united-kingdom-unscrupulous-employers-facing-tougher-health-and-safety-penalties\/"},"modified":"2014-03-04T10:59:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T09:59:06","slug":"united-kingdom-unscrupulous-employers-facing-tougher-health-and-safety-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurogip.fr\/en\/united-kingdom-unscrupulous-employers-facing-tougher-health-and-safety-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"UNITED KINGDOM: Unscrupulous employers facing tougher health and safety penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/Images\/eurogipinfos_new\/justiceGB.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"175\" alt=\"justiceGB\" style=\"margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" \/>A report published by the Department for Work and Pensions reviews the application of new rules introduced in 2008, by virtue of the law on breaches of health and safety regulations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The report shows that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a greater proportion of cases (86%) were heard in court after the Act came into force (compared with 70% before then);<\/li>\n<li>the average fine imposed by the courts involving breaches of health and safety regulations alone increased by 60%, from \u00a34,577 to \u00a37,310;<\/li>\n<li>for cases involving breaches of both health and safety regulations and the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) the average increase was 25%, from \u00a313,334 to \u00a316,730;<\/li>\n<li>346 cases attracted fines of more than \u00a35,000 \u2013 which prior to the Act was the maximum fine that could be imposed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The purpose of the Act was to increase the maximum penalties for workplace health and safety offences heard in court, as a deterrent to would-be offenders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report published by the Department for Work and Pensions reviews the application of new rules introduced in 2008, by virtue of the law on breaches of health and safety regulations.&nbsp; The report shows that: a greater proportion of cases (86%) were heard in court after the Act came into force (compared with 70% before&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[909],"class_list":["post-22904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abroad"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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