Health, safety and working conditions
Duty of care, risk assessment records, workplace accidents, psychosocial risk.
The approach
An employer's duty of care is an enhanced obligation of means: what is judged is the measures taken and their traceability, not whether harm occurred. The firm therefore works first on the documents that constitute proof — risk assessment record, action plan, committee minutes, registers — before turning to the substance.
This area rests on an IOSH Managing Safety certification obtained in 2012 and on prevention work carried out in employee relations management, including chairing health and safety committees. The practical consequence is a shared vocabulary with safety and HSE officers, without which legal analysis stays detached from the site.
Matters handled
- Drafting and updating the workplace risk assessment record
- Workplace accidents: declaration, reasoned reservations, challenge
- Employer's inexcusable fault — defence and prevention
- Psychosocial risk, internal investigations, whistleblowing arrangements
- Dealings with the labour inspectorate and follow-up on its observations
- Training works council members in prevention duties
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