Kevin Bridges

Kevin Bridges is an IOSH vice president and partner at Pinsent Masons in the regulatory and investigations team, www.pinsentmasons.com. 

Rising early: sentencing guidelines

1st February 2016
Words: Kevin Bridges£750,000, £1.4m, £2m! These are just three of the penalties handed down in the past eight weeks, even before new guidelines, predicted to transform the sentencing landscape, came into force in England and Wales.Last November the Sentencing Council published the guideline for health and safety offences, intended to ensure more transparency and consistency in penalties, and applying to all organisations sentenced from 1 February.