The definitive guidelines for sentencing health and safety offences, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences were published on 3 November 2015 and came into force on 1 February 2016.

The guideline covers the following offences:

Consultation

A consultation on the draft guidelines ran between 13 November 2014 and 18 February 2015, and we published a response to consultation in November 2015.

Related documents

To support the guidelines and consultations, the Council publishes a range of documents. These documents may include consultation responses, statistical bulletins, resource and equality impact assessments and guideline assessments.

Related documents: Health and safety offences, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences