A-Z guides

Construction

Construction is a high risk industry. Although it accounts for only about 5% of employees in Britain it accounted for 31% of fatal injuries to employees and 10% of reported major/specified injuries. The main causes of death and major injury...

Contractors

Work undertaken by a contractor is usually covered by a separate contract for services. It is good practice for provisions concerning health and safety arrangements and responsibilities to be included within the contract. However, duties under hea...

Corporate manslaughter

The passing of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, to introduce a statutory offence of ‘Corporate manslaughter’ (called ‘Corporate Homicide’ in Scotland) followed many years of promises by the UK Gov...

Corporate responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is used by leading companies as a strategic framework, through which all company activities are viewed. It is also known as Corporate Responsibility (CR) and sometimes as Corporate Citizenship. CSR is not a r...