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LATEST ARTICLES
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Risk Controls for Legionella
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Legionella is the bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ Disease which is a pneumonia-type infection. |
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Proposed Changes to the Personal Injury Protocols
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Further changes are planned to the protocols for handling personal injury claims and which are likely to be introduced early in 2008. Are Local Authorities fully prepared for the inevitable impact on resources and implications upon risk management strategies?
David Blythe
December 2007
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Cycling to/at Work
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With the ‘Green’ agenda high up on the Governments priorities cycling to work is being encouraged across the country.
The Cycle to Work initiative takes advantage of legislation introduced by the government to encourage employees to bike to work as part of the government's Green Transport Plan.
Pam Savill
December 2007
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Externalisation of Services - Risk Issues for consideration
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Many Authorities have embarked upon significant Partnerships/Externalisation programmes with different providers and the theme of this article is just too touch upon some of the salient aspects of the risk transfer process which Authorities need to consider when undertaking such a process. The article is aimed at large scale transfers and not for the day to day partnership workings of say an after school club in a school. Experience is drawn first hand from the writer being involved in three such programmes and the emphasis here is on externalisation of services (e.g. Highways and the like).
Phillip Farrar
December 2007
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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007
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The above act gained Royal Ascent in July and will come into force on 6th April 2008.
This act will more easily allow the prosecution of organisations whose gross corporate failures in health and safety led to a death. Under the act there is no need to identify an individual senior manager or “controlling mind” as it is the organisation not the individuals that will be pursued.
Russell Johnstone
December 2007
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Contract Works Insurance
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Contract works cover (CAR) is a coverage which often leaves the most experienced of insurance technicians confused as to who is insuring what and what the cover offers. The aim of this article is simply to touch upon some of the salient features of the coverage, and offer the reader a little more guidance in this specialist field.
Philip Farrar
December 2007
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Exercise of Powers to Enter and Search: Liability in Damages for Negligent Use
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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) Judgement in this case found that the police force had acted negligently in their use of the power of entry and search. The court concluded that a search under warrant carried out at an address where the suspect no longer lived or occupied was “based on a misconception which could, and should, have been avoided with proper precautions”.
Mark Povey
December 2007
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