Services

Our Principal, Stuart Armstrong, was previously ranked by the Legal 500 as Number 1 for Health & Safety in Yorkshire and the Humber and joint 1st in the North West. He is a visiting lecturer to Leeds Metropolitan University and he is on the speakers’ panel of the Chartered Institution of Occupational Safety & Health. In 2012 he was awarded the IOSH President’s Distinguished Service Award for services to health and safety.

The range of health & safety, environmental and regulatory work includes:

Services - Nuclear

Nuclear

Assisted preferred bidder in negotiated tender process; reviewed operating site licence; lectured on nuclear health & safety, and environmental issues on short nuclear law course

Services - Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Industrial injuries; engineering safety issues and associated noise nuisance; warehouse fatal accidents (FLT; falls from height); non fatal process incidents.

Services - Chemical

Chemicals

Site prohibition notice challenge (Gas storage depot); site improvement notice challenge re: safety system compliance (gas production plant); chemical distribution failings and associated product recall.

Services - Construction

Construction and Demolition

Fatal accidents including falls, vehicle related fatalities and non-fatal incidents, mobile crane collapse; trench incidents, confined spaces incidents; non-fatal accidents; appeals of enforcement notices; wildlife incidents.

Services - Rail

Rail

Rail disaster (client not prosecuted); track worker fatalities; rail vehicle incidents (client not prosecuted); rail manufacturing incidents; new tunnel construction safety management issues; policy advice on safety case amendment

Services - Retail

Retail & Distribution

Fire risk assessment defence; vehicle related fatal accidents (road and site related); supermarket related store  and distribution incidents health & safety and environmental issues

Services - Mining

Mining

Surface mining related fatalities from overturning vehicles and crush injuries; safety related issues arising from dam burst and environmental clean up

Services - Professional Compliance

Licensing and Professional Compliance

Defence of prosecutions of surveyors;  successful challenge of enforcement notices issued against asbestos removal contractors; asbestos surveyors; and representation to licensing authorities and professional bodies 

Services - Utilities

Utilities

Fatalities at water treatment works; electrocution of emergency services worker; drafted health & safety schedules for capital works and network replacement programme; individual and organizational defence in fatal accidents.

Services - Non Contentious

Non-Contentious

Health & safety due diligence on sale and purchase of companies; review of safety clauses in construction agreements, contracts, sub-contracts and apportionment of liabilities under tenancies. Safety amendments to standard form contracts accepted by ICE and OGC.

Services - Training

Training

Safety for Directors; Safety Management Systems; CDM; Corporate Governance; Witness Familiarisation; Expert Witnesses; Accident Investigation; Legal Updates; Asbestos Management and others.

Services - Auditing and Review

Auditing and Review

Safety Management Systems; Integrated Management Systems; Safety Auditing; Audit Committee Advice and Group Company advice on integration of differing operational safety management systems