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What's New 2004
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Dec 2004
New Section on Regulation
The CCA has developed a new section of its website providing information on the Government's and Health and Safety Commission's policy towards regulation issues. This encompasses issues of (a) when should new legislation be enacted and (b) how any new or existing legislation should it be enforced
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Press: CCA raises serious concerns about Hampton Review
The Hampton Review’s interim report on reducing administrative burdens on business and its conclusion that regulatory bodies like the Health and Safety Executive should advise more and enforce less have been criticised in the Centre for Corporate Accountability’s initial response published today.
Click here (9 DEC 2004)
Press: BHOPAL 20 YEARS ON: New Manslaughter Bill unlikely to bring British companies causing death abroad to account.
British Companies whose serious negligence causes deaths abroad will not be brought to account as a result of the Government's new manslaughter bill, due to be published this month. The government is planning to restrict the application of its new offence of corporate manslaughter so that it only applies to companies that cause death in Britain. The CCA has written to the Home Secretary today - on the
20th anniversary of the Bhopal disaster - urging him to reconsider the Government's position on this matter.
Click here (2 DEC 2004)
Nov 2004
UPDATE ON CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER REFORMS
Information on the Queen's speech (23 Nov 2004), and what it all means for reform in this area. Why is reform necessary? When will it happen? What will be the position of crown bodies? All your questions answered?
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CCA SEEKS OFFICE MANAGER - 7 month Maternity Cover
Do you want to manage a cutting-edge organisation looking in detail at the role of state bodies in the investigation and prosecution of work-related deaths and in providing advice to bereaved families? Because if you do, an exciting opportunity exists for a person of proven competence and ability.
Closing Date 5pm, Monday, 29 November 2004.
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Sept 2004

Training: Accountability following Work-Related death and injury
The Centre for corporate Accountability and the Public Law Project are organising a one-day training for lawyers, trade unions, advice workers and others on investigation and prosecution issues following work-related death and injury and on how to challenge decisions made by the police, local authorities, the HSE, and Crown Prosecution Service.
London, Thursday 11 November 2004
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Press: GOVERNMENT’S SAFETY POLICIES "INCONSISTENT WITH RESEARCH" NEW REPORT CONCLUDES
Central planks of the Government/Health and Safety Commission's current health and safety strategy are "inconsistent with the national and international published research on the most effective strategies to improve worker and public safety”, says a report published today (15 September 2004) by the Centre for Corporate Accountability. The report, "Making Companies Safe: What Works?"raises serious questions about the Government’s claimed commitment to pursue policies that are ‘evidence-based’
Click here (Embargoed: 00.01 am 15th September 2004).
Aug 2004
SCOTLAND
CCA'S SECOND SCOTLAND CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF HSE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

CCA's second conference in Scotland - which brings together Ministers, the HSE, Crown Office, Lawyers, Trade Unions and Safety activists - considers how effective are the HSE and Local Authorities in ensuring that companies in Scotland comply with health and safety law. It also considers recent developments in the law of homicide, proposed new procedures for the investigation of work-related deaths and the adequacy of Fatal Accident Inquiries
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July 2004
Press: SELECT COMMITTEE CHALLENGES GOVERNMENT TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE THE RESOURCES TO THE HSE AND INTRODUCE LEGISLATION ON DIRECTOR DUTIES
The Government should give substantial new resources to the Health and Safety Commission/Executive (HSC/E) in order for it to double the number of inspectors over a six year period, and change prosecutions procedures, according to a report published by the parliamentary Work and Pensions select committee which published its report today. The Committee stated that the HSE should be considered a "front-line service" and protected from the cuts that the Chancellor announced in his recent spending review.

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BRIEFING ON CORPORATE HOMICIDE REFORMS IN CANADA AND AUSTRALIA
The CCA has written a detailed briefing on the reforms in Canada and Australia in the area of corporate criminal accountability and in particular looking at reforms impacting upon criminal accountability for work-related death and injury.
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June 2004
Press: "KEEP THE SAFETY REGULATION OF RAILWAYS INDEPENDENT", DISASTER FAMILY AND SAFETY GROUPS TELL THE GOVERNMENT
The regulation of safety should continue to be the responsibility of the Health and Safety Executive and not be transferred to the Department of Transport or any other body, safety groups have told the Department of Transport in a submission to its Rail Review which is due to report this summer. The Submission also questions the Secretary of State's view that there are too many safety standards enforced in an overcautious manner.
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Press: HSE'S RESTRICTIVE POLICY ON PUBLIC SAFETY "UNLAWFUL" SAYS LEGAL ADVICE
The Health and Safety Executive's new policy on public safety - which stops HSE inspectors enforcing public safety duties upon employers in certain circumstances - is "unlawful" says a legal opinion obtained by the Centre for Corporate Accountability.
The legal opinion has been given by two public law specialists, barrister Michael Fordham - one of Britain's top barristers in the field - and John Halford from the solicitors, Bindman and Partners. It was sought by the Centre for Corporate Accountability after the HSE refused to investigate a number of deaths of members of public.
Click Here (25 June 2004)
 
Press: NON-UK EUROPEAN BUSINESSES ESCAPE HEALTH AND SAFETY LAW ENFORCEMENT
Non-UK European businesses providing services in Britain on a non-permanent basis may no longer have to comply with British health and safety law if the European Parliament and Council of Ministers agrees to the text of a new Framework Directive currently under consultation. The Health and Safety Executive and Local Authorities will not be able to inspect, investigate, impose enforcement notices or lay criminal charges against the company or individuals for any breaches of health and safety law, according to the "Directive on Services in the Internal market".
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CCA'S ADVICE SERVICE : ITS "SERVICE STRATEGY " AND ASSESSMENT OF THE SERVICE PROVIDED
The CCA has written a detailed service strategy setting out how its two caseworkers provide advice and assistance, what sort of advice and assistance is provided, and how their work is supervised and reviewed. In 2003, the CCA undertook an anonymised assessment of its advice work and this is also being published.
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MAY 2004

Press: MAJOR POLICY SHIFT MEANS THAT CERTAIN DEATHS AND INJURIES OF MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC NO LONGER INVESTIGATED BY THE HSE
Deaths and injuries of members of the public, which until recently would have been investigated by the Health and Safety Executive, will no longer be subject to inquiry, the Centre for Corporate Accountability has discovered.
The HSE will also no longer inspect hospitals, the police, local authorities and others to see whether they are complying with their public safety duties.
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Press: NINE "APPRENTICE" WORKERS DIED WHILST RECEIVING GOVERNMENT-FUNDED TRAINING
In the last twenty months, nine apprentice workers - all under the age of 23 - have been killed on work placements as part of Government funded courses, the Centre for Corporate Accountability can reveal.
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APR 2004
CORPORATE KILLING CONFERENCE PAPERS
"We are still hoping to publish a draft bill before the end of the current parliamentary session," said Home Office Minister Baroness Scotland in her speech to the CCA conference on Corporate Killing. Download her and other speaker's presentations including that of Baroness Scotland
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Press: "INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE HOMICIDE REFORMS ECLIPSE BRITISH PROPOSALS" CONFERENCE HEARS.
New laws passed by the Canadian parliament in November 2003 will have far wider implications on employing organisations, company directors and managers compared to the "Corporate Killing" reforms so far proposed by the British Home Office a major conference in London heard today.
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Mar 2004
CCA GIVES ORAL AND WRITTEN EVIDENCE ON HSE TO SELECT COMMITTEE
The CCA has been asked to give oral evidence to the Select Committee on Work and Pensions on Wednesday 24 March at 10.45 am in the Grimond Room, Portcullis House. It had previously given written evidence - which is now available.

The Select Committee is undertaking an inquiry into the work of the Health and Safety Commission and Executive.
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MAJOR CCA CONFERENCE ON "CORPORATE KILLING", 29 APRIL 2004
Home Office Minister, Baroness Scotland has agreed to speak at a major conference in London on 29 April 2004 on 'Corporate Killing' organised by the Centre for Corporate Accountability. Speakers representing trade unions, employers and safety organisations are speaking along with human rights lawyers and hazard campaigners.

The Government is due to publish its new proposals to reform the law of corporate manslaughter. £30 standard registration fee

To find out more and register
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Feb 2004
BRIEFING: HOW LOCAL COUNCILS CAN BE PROSECUTED FOR MANSLAUGHTER
To read a briefing and CCA's comments on the decision by the CPS to prosecute Barrow Borough Council for manslaughter,

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Press: ONE OF BRITAIN'S WORST WORK-RELATED 'DISASTERS'
"The deaths of 18 Cockle Pickers in Morecambe bay is one of
Britain's worst work-related disasters in recent years. If it is
discovered that these people had been asked to undertake
this work for a company, business or individual, a manslaughter investigation needs to be carried out into whether their deaths were the result of gross negligence on their part." says the CCA
Click Here (6 Feb 2004)
Jan 2004
HSC REJECTS LEGAL DUTIES ON DIRECTORS
The Health and Safety Commission has rejected recommending to Ministers a new legal duty on directors. This is despite the fact that the Government has committed itself to legislating in this area "when parliamentary time allows".
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SCOTLAND'S JUDGES DEVELOPS LAW OF CORPORATE HOMICIDE
Scotland's High Court of Justiciary has ruled for the first time that companies can be prosecuted for the offence of ‘culpable homicide’. It has also established a principle of law – wider than the legal test that exists in England – that allows companies to be prosecuted without needing to prosecute a director or senior manager.
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CCA SEEKS NEW CASEWORKER
Do you want to work in a cutting-edge organisation looking in detail at the role of state bodies in the investigation and prosecution of work-related deaths and in providing advice to bereaved families? Are you committed to working in a not-for-profit organisation working on issues of worker and public safety? Because if you are, an exciting opportunity exists for a person of proven competence and ability, to run the CCA's highly regarded 'Work-Related Death Advice Service'. Closing Date 5pm, Wednesday, 28 January 2004.
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