Personnel Today Audio

Practical legal advice on what HR can do to minimise the risk of corporate manslaughter claims under the new Act, including:

• What is changing in the law? (41secs in)
  
• What penalties do companies face? Includes news on fines company can face, and a warning to employers that issue company cars (5minutes 15seconds in)
  
• What can HR do to follow the new law? Includes practical steps on identifying and training senior managers, altering employment contracts and how HR can lead work in this area (7minutes 43seconds in)
  
• Does the new law go far enough to make companies change their behaviour in the light of health and safety? (14minutes 44seconds in)
  

Presenter Louisa Peacock talks to employment partners Tom Flanagan at Pinsent Masons and David Leckie at Muclay, Murray & Spens to find out exactly what HR needs to be concerned about with the new law and practical steps they can do in the workplace right now to be prepared for changes in corporate manslaughter law.

For more information on the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2008, coming into effect on 6 April, visit www.personneltoday.com/41798.article