Heavy industry and mining can be risky businesses. If something goes wrong at the workplace, lives and health may be in danger, and the surrounding physical environment also can be significantly damaged. Companies in these sectors bear a heavy responsibility for safe and compliant operations—especially when the occasional mistake occurs.
Hopefully these mistakes don’t turn into full-fledged disasters. But if they do, criminal liability for executives is a very real possibility. “In this type of environment where maybe in the past you got away with fines and penalties, criminal sanctions are a real risk,” Thomas Sauermilch, a partner at McDermott Will & Emery and leader of the firm’s industrials group, told CorpCounsel.com.
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