Failure by Safety Body to publicise its own convictions, new research shows
The safety agency that prosecutes companies and individuals for health and safety offences fails to publicise the vast majority of its convictions – including those involving deaths - new research by the Centre for Corproate Accountability shows. This is despite the fact that one of the main purposes of these kinds of prosecutions is to act as a deterrent against other employers from committing similar offences.

New manslaughter offence unlikely to apply to large companies for many years, says safety charity
Large companies are unlikely to be prosecuted for the new offence of Corporate Manslaughter for many years – even though deaths will have resulted from their serious management failures and will have met the new legal test. This is because the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007  - which technically comes into effect after 6 April 2008 - contains strict retrospective clauses that mean not only must the death take place after 6 April 2008, but all the evidence supporting the allegation must also taken place after that date.

Fines against most companies convicted following work-related deaths less than 1/700th of Turnover, new research shows
The majority of large companies convicted of healthand safety offences involving a  death of a worker or member of the public are fined at a level which is less than 700th of their annual turnover, new research by the Centre for Corporate Accountability shows. If individuals earning an average annual income of £24,769 were sentenced at this level, they would be
fined just £35. The CCA is urging the Sentencing Advisory Panel to provide guidance that will allow the courts to fine companies convicted of 'death-related' health and safety offences between 2.5 and 10% of the company's turnover and for the new corporate manslaughter offence of between 15 and 40% of the company's turnover