Health and safety offences, corporate manslaughter and food safety and hygiene offences
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:
- Health and safety offences – organisations
- Health and safety offences – individuals
- Corporate manslaughter
- Food safety and hygiene offences – organisations
- Food safety and hygiene offences – individuals
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