Health and Safety

Why choose our Health and Safety lawyers?

Health and safety are a vital issue for all companies in all sectors. If the health and safety of employees and third parties is not protected, the resulting legal and reputational consequences can be severe.

It is therefore critical that businesses receive appropriate expert legal advice to support them through the crisis response process and any associated investigations, and to help instil a strong and proactive health and safety culture, driven from the top.

Our lawyers provide, clear, concise and commercially minded advice on health and safety matters. We also collaborate with qualified health and safety professionals to ensure that our clients receive comprehensive  support in meeting both their legal and practical health and safety obligations to help prevent issues occurring.

In the event of an incident rapid advice is required. We offer clients a 24- hour incident response service and can attend the scene quickly, advising the Board or senior management whilst an investigation gets underway.

We can guide clients through subsequent HSE, local authority or police investigation, enforcement and prosecution as well as any inquests that follow fatal accidents. 

Even for incidents that do not result in an investigation by an investigatory authority, clients need to ensure that they have taken all necessary steps (including self-reporting, where relevant) and understand why an incident occurred, so that remedial actions can be taken where necessary. We frequently conduct internal investigations for clients in response to health and safety incidents, identifying the root cause and providing commercially practical advice on how to prevent similar incidents in future.