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Philip Baker A.1 Baker & Son Hastings, East Sussex
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Owner-driver Philip Baker is not really a key target for the new corporate manslaughter legislation. Ifs designed to nail the guilty parties in big corporate outf its —as a oneman band he could hardly expect to escape identification as the "controlling mind", But even after 35 years in the business, the thought of being accused of causing someone's death plays on his mind. "The buck stops with me,' he says. 'I am the only individual involved. There's no hiding behind anyone else."
Baker fears some operators could be hauled up before the courts unfairly under the planned laws. No matter how much training or instruction they give drivers it only takes a momentary lapse of concentration for disaster to strike.
"Whatever an employer does, something can still go wrong," he concludes. "It's a very difficult area."