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24/01/2022
January 2022
When it comes to health and safety in the workplace, it is all very well having a detailed health and safety policy along with a suite of risk assessments and procedures, but if these do not reflect what is happening on the ground, they are not worth the paper they are written on. Companies need to be able to demonstrate how they manage health and safety risks in reality. But it’s not just the company that will have to face the consequences should a serious accident, fatality or breach occur in the workplace. So where does the buck stop? Who is liable?
Mike Appleby, leading health and safety lawyer with niche firm Fisher Scoggins Waters, adds:
“Good, reliable information and data that demonstrates how safety is being managed can be key to building a defence. As Mark Twain once said: ‘It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so’”.
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Fisher Scoggins Waters are a London based law firm who specialise in construction, manufacturing and engineering matters. If you have recently had a health and safety incident occur in your workplace and require legal advice, please phone us on 0207 993 6960.
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