Regulatory: Health and Safety

Bexley Beaumont: An award-winning boutique law firm with an inclusive and collaborative team culture and an uncompromising approach to quality aligning the interests of both clients and lawyers. Senior experienced lawyers with a wealth of commercial acumen acting as trusted advisors providing legal solutions across all commercial disciplines.

Health and safety compliance has gained significance, and public profile over recent years. Navigating a vast regulatory landscape can often be complex and challenging. The consequences of getting it wrong can be tragic and life changing for all concerned, as well as have the potential for considerable reputational and brand impact, loss of public trust and confidence, and attract unlimited criminal fines (non-insurable) and custodial sentences. Therefore, ensuring compliance pro-actively has never been more important.

We work with businesses and individuals (from SMEs to large/international PLCs) across all sectors and industries to find a practical and commercial way through, and provide a full suite of pro-active and reactive legal support solutions.

We have experience in dealing with various regulators, including: Health and Safety Executive, Local Authority (Environmental Health Officers), Police, Fire Authorities, Trading Standards, Office of Rail and Road, Care Quality Commission, Ofsted, amongst others. We advise on the full range of regulatory regimes, can help you towards achieve and maintaining legal compliance, but support should the worst happen in the event of a regulatory investigation or enforcement action, such as prosecution.

Finally, we often work closely with our real estate, housing, employment, and corporate teams where transactions involve health and safety or compliance issues, and help clients to identify, manage and mitigate risks to their business, the wider community and most importantly, their people.

Our areas of expertise include:

Manual Handling
Mental Health and Managing Workplace Stress
Traffic Management – vehicle and pedestrian segregation
Work-related Road Risk
Building and Fire Safety
Occupational Health
Directors Duties
Gas Safety/Asbestos
Product Safety
CDM – Client, Principal Designer and Principal Contractor Duties
PUWER/Machinery Safety and Guarding
RIDDOR – Reporting of Incident, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013
Workplace Fatalities and Serious Incidents
Business Resilience and Preparedness

Our services include:

Corporate Support and Due Diligence
Legal / Strategic Advice and Opinion
Compliance Reviews and Stress Tests
Training and Workshops - we can offer a variety of ‘off-the-shelf’ or ‘bespoke’ training on health and safety compliance, risk management, leadership and culture for all sectors & across all levels of your business.
Crisis and Incident Response and Management
Internal Investigations
Advising on Notice of Contraventions
Advising on Fee for Interventions
Enforcement Notice Appeals
Regulatory Investigation and Interventions
PACE or voluntary interviews
Witness interviews
Advice on plea and/or prospects of success around a defence
Active criminal representation in Magistrates and Crown Court
Inquests – coronial law and practice, including: advice on registering interest, supplying evidence & information, active representation, and dealing with prevention of future death reports.