Services Regulation Health and safety
Health and safety
Service overview
Best practice, for any business.
Regulatory intervention can put your business and reputation at risk. We’ll help you find your way forward – on the right side of the lines.
Health and safety obligations are an integral part of running a successful business – but when things go wrong, the ramifications can be far-reaching.
That’s why we offer a suite of proactive protection alongside our reactive management services to minimise risk and acheive the best possible outcome.
From navigating health and safety investigations to appealing enforcement notices, we’ll provide tailored support that meets you where you are – and moves with you every step of the way.
Ready to take the next step?
Our services
How we can help you:
- Assistance with, and advising on, applications for environmental permits and exemptions(including transfers and surrender)
- Compliance with all aspects of environmental law, including the environmental permitting regime
- Proactive health and safety advice as per client requirements – whether ad-hoc, or project-specific
- Tailored training for boards, directors and employees covering all aspects of regulatory compliance, including crisis management following a workplace accident
- Dealing with regulators; including: The Crown Prosecution Service; The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); The Environment Agency; The Health and safety Executive; The Local Authority; The Police; Water authorities.
- Internal investigations, including: following an incident such as pollution and/or an alleged breach; following workplace accidents.
- Advising on, and/or preparing, written submissions
- Advising on, and representing at, interviews under caution
- Advising on, or appealing, enforcement notices, improvement, and prohibition notices, including revocation/suspension of environmental permits
- Advising on criminal and regulatory investigations
- Crisis management in the immediate aftermath of an incident
- Defending prosecutions in the magistrates or crown courts
- Enforcement notices (improvement and prohibition notices)
- Fees for intervention
- Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)
- Support throughout criminal or regulatory investigations
- Supporting individuals such as directors, managers and employees
- Support in relation to all types of inquests
- Abatement notice advice and appeals
- Defending breach of abatement notice prosecutions
- Proactive advice on minimising statutory nuisance determinations
- Support throughout local authority investigations
What to expect from us
The right legal experts, wherever you are.
Regional teams, nationally connected – we move quickly, stay close, and bring the right specialists together around you.
When it matters most, you need experience in the room. Our structure gives senior advisers more time with clients. So relationships are built over years, not handed off after day one.
Our specialists in your region are backed by a nationwide network. So, whatever comes up, you get the right experts without having to change advisers.
We’re based in the regions where you operate. So you work with advisers who understand you and are there in person when you need them.
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