Posted By Nick Higginson
Dear all

In a similar vein to a previous thread, I am looking for instances (prosecution or enforcement action) of consultants (health and safety preferably, but any activity will do) giving negligent advice.

Any help would be appreciated.

Regards

Nick

Posted By Allan St.John Holt
Charles, what an excellent link you've given us all! The find of the day for me, and I invite others to browse around that site. Just copy the whole address into your browser. They don't hold old case records, of course.

The first I can remember was in the sixties, when construction safety consultants Richardson Hill & Partners were either sued or prosecuted successfully - I think sued - following an inspection they made of a hoist in Brighton which turned out to be less safe than was supposed. I seem to remeber the case was written up in Redgrave, but I don't have my early editions to hand to check it out.

Allan

Posted By Diane Thomason
Nick,

There's one I remember from TSHP, probably last year. It involved a consultant who had done a survey (dust or noise, I forget) for a company. The company relied on his results which turned out to be dodgy, and were found guilty of some breach to do with the noise/dust. Consultant was prosecuted and found guilty under HSWA for "causing an offence to be committed by another" - can't remember which section.

(sorry about all this forgetting details!)

It was ruled that he should not have done the survey himself as it was outside his competence - he should have had a qualification in occ hygiene to be doing this sort of survey.

Maybe someone else remembers this and can post the details.

Diane

Posted By Geoff Burt
A firm of planning supervisors was prosecuted along with their client something like 2 years ago - vaguely remember it was something about not dealing with asbestos properly.