Act prompts more action
August 1st 2008

Rias, a specialist over-50s insurance company with more than 1200 employees is taking the requirements of the Corporate Manslaughter Act seriously.

Although it already had well established health and safety policies and procedures, it identified a need to take a detailed look at current safeguards and make people aware of their responsibilities, especially senior management. It was also important to increase awareness and get employees to take more ownership of their actions.

To achieve this, Data Sound carried out a training course for directors and produced a health and safety handbook for managers.

It also helped Rias to tweak its policies and procedures to take the new Act into account. For example, anyone driving on company business comes under the law, so a proper driving policy was implemented to provide adequate safeguards.