Company Directors May Become Criminally Liable for Workplace Deaths
Labour Party MSP Richard Baker (North East Scotland region) has called for changes to the existing laws governing corporate homicide, saying they are “not able to cope with modern times and, in particular, modern business and other relationships”. In Scotland, there are on average 20 workplace fatalities per year, and in 2012/13 22 people died. The MSP […]
Firm fined over cooling tower drowning
A maintenance contractor must pay a total of £155,000 after a man fell into a water filled sump at a North Wales power station and drowned. Michael Benn, 37, from Glenrothes, Fife was one of a team of three working to remove sludge and debris from part of a cooling tower at Connah’s Quay Power […]
