Abstract
The Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 addresses the penalties that courts may impose for breach of the duties in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Possibly, it may satisfy the demands of those who have long campaigned for higher penalties to be imposed for conduct which creates a risk of personal injury to workers or the general public. For over a decade, organisations such as the Centre for Corporate Accountability have campaigned for higher penalties for occupational health and safety offences. On 5 November 1999, David Bergman had an article entitled ‘Boardroom GBH’ published in the New Law Journal provoking a measured response (published in the same Journal on 28 January 2000) from Richard Clifton of the Health and Safety Executive. At about this time a Private Members’ Bill was introduced to the House of Commons for the purpose of increasing the penalties that courts could impose...
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