The Institute of Directors (IoD, an association composed of leaders and board directors) and the Health and Safety Executive recently published a guide on health and safety in order to make leading teams and board members more responsible and to sensitize them to the interest in a "leadership for security at work". Unions deplore that this good practice guideline is not imposed by law. (Ref. 070914)
Whereas a new law on companies’ penal responsibility is going to come into effect in April 2008 (see our article No. 070685), a code of conduct on health and safety at work is going to be sent to the leaders of public and private companies throughout the country. The Institute of Director’s Director General, Miles Templeman, who initiated the guide, hopes that “the new guidance can help organisations integrate health and safety into business decisions in an appropriate way, not one that stifles appropriate activity”, he regrets the fact that “too often, health and safety are words used as excuses by organisations that have not developed their thinking in this area.”
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