According to Chambers & Partners 2005, our “mature practice has an impressive list of clients”, we are "close to the market" and "can anticipate its mood." As well as acting for an array of household name national and international companies, representing them in their dealings with regulators, we specialise in providing consultancy advice, supported by preventative training on all aspects of health and safety.

We provide consultancy advice on health, safety, fire, trading standards, food, occupational health, transport, and statutory nuisance issues. We also advise on disability discrimination, product liability, construction design and management, and due diligence for corporate transactions. In order to prevent risks occurring, we offer high quality training on these issues from board level to the shop floor.

We have expertise in matters involving trading standards authorities, food safety authorities, environmental protection authorities (including the Environment Agency), planning authorities, the health and safety enforcement authorities (including the Health and Safety Executive), DEFRA and the Medical Devices Agency.

Over the last year, we've advised clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including property and facilities management, food and retail, construction, explosives, education, waste management, utilities and energy, transport, manufacturing, health, medical products, national and local government and finance - and several of the country's leading health and safety consultants.

• advising and representing Royal Ordnance Plc for a prosecution following an explosion at a licensed explosives site
• representing an international tunnelling company in a high profile health and safety prosecution following an explosion during the construction of part of the London Underground

Richard Bretton
t +44 (0) 117 917 4046
richard.bretton@osborneclarke.com