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Employment Memo - Health and safety - Means of protection - Adequate management system - Reporting requirements - 4880
Employers must report the following to the relevant health and safety enforcement authority (HSE, local authorities and Office of Rail Regulation) (Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (SI 2013/1471 ), known as RIDDOR): - accidents to employees resulting in a reportable injury on the employer's premises or on other premises if they occur in connection with the work activity or due to work-related violence. Reportable injuries are: - death; - a specified injury: serious fractures,...Click here -
Employment Memo - Health and safety - Remedies and enforcement - Enforcement - Offences - Offences under health and safety/fire safety rules - 5180
Prosecutions under health and safety and fire safety legislation can be brought by the relevant enforcement authority in either a magistrates' court or the Crown Court (s 33 HSWA 1974 ; art 32 SI 2005/1541 ). The maximum penalties for the majority of offences are as follows (Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 ; s 85 Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 ): - magistrates' court: unlimited fine and/or 6 months' imprisonment; and - Crown Court: unlimited fine and/or 2 years' imprisonment....Click here
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