When a serious accident or incident happens, the first few hours and days are often key to minimising the risk of enforcement action, protecting your reputation and limiting business interruption. This is where 24/7 critical incident support is essential.
With over 20 years’ crisis management experience and dealing with the main UK regulators, we are available to provide practical advice and support to help you manage a business critical event, including:
workplace accidents
environmental incidents
suspected food safety and hygiene breaches
Using our expertise to help you
We provide pragmatic and clear advice to help you make the right decisions during the most stressful and challenging of times, advice that is focused on protecting your reputation and your potential criminal and civil liabilities. We have particular expertise in:
providing advice and support with investigations by the UK enforcing authorities and police
responding to media enquiries and social media management strategies
planning and support with internal investigations
employee welfare and occupational health support
preparing communications with key internal and external stakeholders
where required, developing remediation and mitigation strategies
advising on the exercise and use of regulators’ statutory powers of investigation, warrants and production orders
representation at interviews under caution and at court hearings
Our experience
Examples of instructions include:
advising in connection with a regulatory investigation into the death of a school pupil during an extra-curricular adventure activity
representing a leading UK coach operator following a fatal road traffic accident
advising an international mining company in connection with a chemical release suspected of causing Category 1 environmental harm
advising a high-profile national retailer in connection with an investigation into suspected serious food hygiene breaches
representing a national hotel chain in connection with a fatal salmonella outbreak
representing the manager of a national engineering company suspected of gross negligence manslaughter in connection with a fatal workplace accident
representing a UK retailer in connection with a dawn raid and joint investigation by trading standards and the police into suspected counterfeit merchandise
