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directors' responsibilities

Directors' responsibilities apply to any company director. Over the next three posts we will break down the role of the company director - starting with the responsibilities. Directors' ...

Directors’ Responsibilities: The Directors’ Directory Part 1

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caa reports

The CAA published a report on the progress of its Safety Review of offshore helicopter operations. The comprehensive Safety Review that commenced in February 2014, examined the risks to ...

CAA Reports on progress of offshore helicopter operations.

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Here we go again… for some reason I keep thinking of Tom Cruise films and this time the topic of risk assessments made me think of Risky Business – some might say the film that launched his ...

Risky Business… or just Risk Assessments…

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Of all the challenges presented by transport and logistics perhaps the largest comes with an abnormal load, as the regulations here are complex. Known as an ‘Abnormal Indivisible Load’, it ...

Abnormal Loads – FACTS magazine legal column

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Chessington World of Adventures Operations Ltd was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay £21,614 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The charges ...

Chessington fined £150k after child suffers fractured skull.

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Reducing costs is nothing new especially when it comes to the government schemes. So it was only time before the cost cutting reached the DVSA. It introduced two initiatives, the Remote ...

DVSA Compliance – Legal column in FACTS magazine

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Leedale Limited, a waste management and plant hire company in Derbyshire, was fined £300,000 after a worker was fatally crushed between two vehicles. Derby Crown Court heard how 39-year-old ...

Worker Crushed between two vehicles

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companies

Although The Wolf of Wall Street is a fantastic movie it’s not an example of how we should run our companies. In the real world we need everything to be above board in the board room ...

Keeping the Wolf (of Wall Street) from the door…

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Here at Ferguson Legal, we often report on #besafe and the importance of complying with health and safety, but the latest high profile case to bring this theory into reality is that of Harrison ...

No ‘happily ever after’ for Disney owned firm over Harrison Ford injuries

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With weather like this, can't wait for the weekend

Office with a View.

Great British Bake Off

If, like us, you’re delighted Great British Bake Off is back on TV, you may have noticed that Kate Lyon, one of the contestants, is a health and safety inspector… We love a bit of health and ...

Great British Bake Off – DANGER, DANGER!

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Unfortunately this article is not about the Channel 4 BAFTA-winning game show hosted by Davina McCall, this is about the incident of Thames Water who earlier in the year were ordered to pay out a ...

The Million Pound Drop

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