individual. The Act will focus on senior
management failures either individually
or collectively. This will include not only
Directors, but also those employees
where responsibilities include health
and safety or fleet managers.
“FOUR out of five
small and medium
sized businesses are
leaving themselves
wide open to criminal
charges of corporate
manslaughter...”
The Act also provides increased levels
of investigation for Police, stronger
punishments by the courts and a new
emphasis on holding managers
accountable.

Courts will look at management
systems and practises across the
organisation to ascertain whether an
adequate standard of care had been
applied to the fatal activity.
WHAT IS THE CORPORATE

So what does this mean to me? Well, it
means that at least 85% of your
MANSLAUGHTER BILL?
business customers need assistance in
their Duty of Care obligations. They
have to take reasonable steps to protect
From April 6, the Corporate
Around 20 people are killed and 250
a persons safety by law.
Manslaughter and Corporate
are seriously injured in ‘at work’ road

crashes every week.
H o m i c i d e A c t m e a n s
This involves both a consultative and

methodical process that ensures that
companies could be held
Companies must show they had an
your customer has auditable processes
criminally responsible if an effective management strategy to
and systems to assess and manage
employee, driving for work,
identify ‘at risk’ motorists or face
risks while ensuring that their company
kills while at the wheel.
unlimited fines or potential closure. But
culture is not at odds with health and

85% of small and medium sized
s

afety.
FOUR out of five small and medium
businesses are unaware of the new

sized businesses are leaving them-
legislation, says the survey.
Services such as PlanSolus
selves wide open to criminal charges of

maintenance assist the overall
corporate manslaughter if one of their
The act creates a new offence where
requirement while providing audit trails.
drivers is involved in a fatal road
organisations whose gross failings in

Learn more soon at the Plan Academy
accident, a survey has revealed.
health and safety lead to a death of an
Days.
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