Summary: Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is available to General Public at the website managed by the national Archives on behalf of HM government. Relevant mainly for CORE WP19 on education and training. Full review and source files are coded as CORE1024. Source file at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/contents

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Overview: The act applies mainly to corporations, but also to organisations such as police force, trade unions and employers’ associations. Based on the act organisations may be found guilty of an offence, if a person’s death is caused by substantial neglect of senior management to organise and maintain appropriate healthy and safety measures. Senior management means persons who play significant roles in the making of decisions about how activities are to be managed or organised, or the actual managing or organising of the whole or a substantial part of those activities. The interpretation of the act also considers attitudes and accepted practices within the organisation that were likely to have encouraged any serious management failure or have produced tolerance of it. Penalties incorporate unlimited fines, remedial orders and publicity orders. The last penalty deserves a special attention. A court may make an order organisation to publish the fact that it has been convicted of the offence and its details, the amount of any fine imposed and the terms of any remedial order made.

Cross-references:

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/contents

• section 10 of the Act http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/10
• sections 2(1)(d) and 2(2) of the Act http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/section/

Leading health and safety at work: leadership actions for directors and board members’ (INDG417) [450KB] http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg417.pdf

Full Citation:

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007. (2007). Retrieved from http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/19/contents

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