Howard Fidderman, editor of Health and Safety Bulletin (the UK's best H&S publication) has been talking to the Sentencing Guidelines Council about the intended date for the long-awaited guidance for judges on penalties for deaths at work (including corporate manslaugther prosecutions).
The draft that went out for consultation late in 2007 suggested setting guide fines for manslughter at betwee 5% and 10% of a company's annual turnover, which would mean fines potentially topping hundreds of millions for bigger companies. The biggest to date in the UK was £25 million
After the consultation everything went quiet. Now, according to Howard, the SGC are saying there will be a new draft in December and final guidelines inApril next year.
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