Jason Newall
Partner
Health & Safety Investigations
Health and safety law creates strict obligations for employers. When incidents occur, you could face investigations, proceedings, or even corporate manslaughter charges. Having the right guidance at the earliest stage is vital to safeguard your team and your credibility.
Protecting your people, reputation and business when it matters most
Health and safety law creates strict obligations for employers. When incidents occur, you could face investigations, proceedings, or even corporate manslaughter charges. Having the right guidance at the earliest stage is vital to safeguard your team and your credibility.
When a serious accident, dangerous occurrence or fatality happens, the first hours are critical. Our specialist Health & Safety Team defends organisations and senior individuals through HSE, Local Authority and Police investigations, from dawn raid to resolution. We move quickly to safeguard legal privilege, secure evidence, protect your reputation and achieve the best possible outcome.
Speak to a member of our team
Our team support you to navigate complexity, seize opportunity and move forward with legal clarity.
Contact our Specialists
Get strategic advice from a team that knows how to protect and grow your business. Please complete our enquiry form and one of our experts will contact you by the next working day.
Alternatively, you can call us now.
Our opening hours are Monday to Friday 8am to 6pm (Excluding Public Holidays).
0370 1500 100
What can we help you with?
Why choose Irwin Mitchell?
Get expert guidance on adherence, training, and risk management
Following an incident, we are able to provide a rapid response and offer end to end support through investigations, interviews under caution, enforcement action, inquiries, inquests, and court proceedings.
What you can get assistance with:
- Advice on compliance with health and safety regulations
- Training on exposure management, Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR), and directors’ duties
- Early case assessments of potential liabilities
- Corporate manslaughter and gross negligence probes
- Defence in asbestos, working at height, or serious workplace injury cases
- Representation for directors, managers, and staff at interviews under caution
- Assistance with inquests, coronial proceedings, and Fee for Intervention challenges
- Reputation management following reviews or cases.
With multidisciplinary direction, you will navigate health and safety frameworks with precision, protecting both your workforce and your company’s reputation.
Making an enquiry
We have several ways you can contact us, either by completing our online contact form, by phone, or using our live chat. If you start your journey online, here are the first steps to working together.
Complete our online formWe need a few details to understand your situation and the kind of support you need.
We’ll contact you by phoneOn the call our experts will ask you a few more questions to make sure we connect you with the right legal advice from our team.
We arrange a full appointmentIf we're able to support you further, the next step is an appointment with one of our specialists so we can discuss everything in more detail.
Fees & funding
We can offer flexible pricing to suit incident response and long-running investigations:
- Pre agreed emergency response packages
- Fixed fee stages for interviews, notice challenges and inquests
- Blended rates / capped fees for court proceedings
- Insurance panel relationships and insurer liaison where relevant.
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