The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 established self regulation, albeit within specific substantive statutory requirements laid out in previous legislation, as the basis for further developments in company policies and practices designed to improve standards of health and safety at work....

Governance has become a topic of unprecedented emotional significance and fundamental importance in the boardrooms of companies, partly as a result of a confluence of early 21st century corporate scandals, stock market falls and public rage about senior executive remuneration. A simple adherence...