Very large organisations (VLOs) could face higher fines for health and safety offences under amended guidelines published by the Sentencing Council.
By Belinda Liversedge on 13 June 2025
The owner of a paddleboard business who caused the deaths of four people in a river in south-west Wales has been jailed for 10 and a half years. The court heard Nerys Lloyd, 39, had been “completely reckless” to take a group of inexperienced paddleboarders into the flooded river and weir in Haverfordwest.
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 May 2025
A Cornish waste recycling company has been fined £200,000 for corporate manslaughter after an employee was killed at its Redruth plant.
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 December 2020
Thames Water has been fined £300,000 after three workers were carried along a sewer in a gate collapse at the Thames Tideway Tunnel project.
By on 15 January 2020
A Hull tyre company has been ordered to pay over £41,000 in costs and fines after its employee lost his arm when a crane tyre he was inflating exploded in an incident in December 2015.
By on 01 October 2019
Universal Safety Assurance is a new approach for sharing mutual compliance information using blockchain technology, a step towards increased contractor safety.
By on 01 February 2019
