Given the new health and safety framework since 2011, the Loefstedt Report of late 2011 on health and safety legislation has been accepted by the Government.  This Report augurs much change during 2012-2015 with its rolling programme of reform and amendment of health and safety law. The key recommendations of this 110 page Report are thoroughly integrated throughout this new Edition. The Government has agreed that the HSE will recover its costs for interventions (CD235). Given the Government website rationalisation programme, there is doubt over the future of the HSE website. The first conviction under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 was obtained in February 2011.  The fine was £385,000 on a company with a turnover of £333,000 - 116% of turnover.  High (and potentially crippling) fines may be anticipated under this Act on convictions for serious management failures leading to a gross breach of a duty of care. In addition, the Health and Safety (Offences) Act 2008 has raised fines, made imprisonment an option for most health & safety offences and made certain offences, formerly triable only in the lower courts, triable in either the lower or higher courts. This new Edition incorporates major amendments including a new Chapter dedicated to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 and amendments by The Supply of Machinery (Safety) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 and The Agency Workers (Amendment) Regulations 2011.  In addition to the Loefstedt Report above, it integrates the Lord Young Report, including the Occupational Safety and Health Consultants Register. All of this necessitates a new approach - and a new Handbook - “Health & Safety at Work Brief”. The Handbook is written by a Solicitor with extensive experience of health and safety law in a major British plc. In its largest Edition ever, the text comprises some 1100 A5 pages in two loose-leaf Volumes and is contained in two smart, foam-padded leather-look Binders. Designed as either a stand-alone text or a companion volume to "Environment Brief", "Health & Safety at Work Brief" features both cross-referencing within its text and to the text of "Environment Brief". Volume 1 is an independent commentary of some 540 pages explaining the law, practice and policy. “Health & Safety at Work Brief” constitutes one stop treatment of health and safety subject-matters. It provides a thoroughly integrated treatment of the following features of health and safety: a user-friendly layout by subject-matter and by numbered paragraphs; reference to current legislation; explanation of the law from reproduction of the key points in Approved Codes of Practice or Guidance Notes and from some 200 cases of leading case-law; reference to EU and other applicable legislation; and further reading from HSE publications and several hundred websites. Volume 2 comprises over 500 pages reproducing verbatim the consolidated legislative texts of Key Acts and Regulations.