cpd25 Essential Health and Safety Law
9.00 - 4.30, Friday 13th January 2006
Room B202, Brunei Gallery, SOAS

cpd25 are pleased to offer this full day session on Essential Health and
Safety Law.

Andrea Chute LLM Barrister is a JSB Trainer/Consultant and practising
barrister specialising in employment law. Before becoming a lawyer, Andrea
had a business background in publishing, marketing and sales. She is
Visiting Lecturer in Employment Law at the University of Westminster and has
particular experience of designing and conducting employment law courses for
major organisations, including several large trade unions and the TUC
itself. 

9.00 	Registration and coffee/tea 
9.30 	Health and Safety Law Outline 
- Responsibility for health and safety 
- Criminal and civil liability 
- Corporate manslaughter - proposals 
- EU directives and UK legislation 
Civil Liability 
- Operating safe systems of work 
- Failure to take reasonable care 
- Claims for personal injury, including stress 
- Workplace stress 
10.45 	Tea Break
Health and Safety at Work Act 
- Employer's, employee's and manager's duties 
- Contractors, sub-contractors and visitors 
Enforcement of Health and Safety 
- Enforcement notices, prosecutions and penalties 
- Prosecutions and penalties 
- Reasonably practicable' 
- Corporate and director liability 
12.30	Lunch
Health and Safety and Employee Relations 
- Health and safety committees 
- Victimisation of 'whistleblowers' 
15.00	Tea Break
European Safety Law 
- EU Directives in UK 
- Display screen equipment and manual handling 
- The concept of risk assessments 
- Monitoring safety performance
16 30 	End of Session 

Booking Information:

Cost is £100 for CPD25 members, £120 for M25 affiliate members and £150 for
other institutions, including lunch and refreshments. 
Please note that there are limited places available for this event.
Cancellations less than one week before the event will be charged a 50%
cancellation fee. In the event of a 'no-show' on the day, the full fee will
be charged. 

Please book online at www.cpd25.ac.uk/booking or contact Dave Puplett:
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Dave Puplett
cpd25 Administrator
 
University of Westminster, Marylebone Campus Library
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
 
Tel: 0207 911 5836, Fax: 5058
Mobile: 07795 204 514
www.cpd25.ac.uk