Enforcement: Courts still failing to sentence properly
The HSE has
responded to another "disappointing" year of low fines for health and safety
offences with guarded optimism about the future.
Launching its second annual "name and shame" report,1 HSE director general Timothy Walker said of the 2000/01 returns: "It is now two full years since the Court of Appeal said that fines being imposed were too low and we have not seen any marked progress so far towards a more realistic general level of fines." But, he added, health and safety sentencing guidance issued by the Magistrates' Association in 2001 means "there is reason to believe that this may change in future years".
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