M This is markedly quicker than most prosecutions following fatalities.

That seems like a very throw away comment. How would you know how complex the case has been to investigate and to put together a water tight case if you haven't been involved in it?

Thanks Ray, I hope most people here realised that too

Perhaps the issue is that the legislation was meant to be to deal with the difficulty of prosecuting large companies and yet it seems to be used against small business where the chain of direction / command / mens rea (if feeling learned / posh) is obvious! I think gathering the evidence against larger business will be an interesting exercise under FFI as it will generally involve an enormous fishing trip as " culture" is so wide a term and it is not like looking for a missing 6 monthly chain ticket

Peter I think it was "beaten" into me "not learnt" but for my sins I did manage a Latin O level so I could probably have worked it out without the beating - it is quite sad how much useless information one manages to retain and yet still manage to forget to buy what you were sent to the Supermarket for ...... either age or not enough beatings to influence the behaviour I suppose. Are we still allowed corporal punishment as an influence under modern behavioural safety management systems? Problem I guess is that could be both reward or threat? Suppose I had better try to finish this really tedious survey ...........

Yes, that's what I understood. And it still remains untested.