Health and Safety Enforcement and Prosecutions in Local Authority Enforced Sectors

Successful local authority prosecutions of health and safety offences, including details of the individual charges laid against duty holders and the penalties imposed by the courts, is published annually on this website.

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For further information on specific cases, please contact the prosecuting authority directly.

Headline figures of local authority enforcement activity are also included in HSE's Annual Health and Safety Statistics publication

In addition, HSE statisticians use the data (along with other sources) to calculate prosecution rates, average fines etc as well as to identify trends. This information is then used to inform strategic decisions.

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