About session two

Showcases the Legality of All This, where friend of APS and Michcon De Reya Partner Kizzy Augstin discusses a legal update for safety in construction. 

The discussion touches on the Building Safety Act – including “the accountable person”, “dutyholders” and registration. Along with a look at REUL, PPE and SAW.

About the speaker

Kizzy Augstin - Michcon De Reya Partner

Kizzy is a Partner in the White Collar Crime & Investigations Group at Mishcon de Reya and currently heads the firm's Health and Safety practice. 

A Solicitor Advocate with Higher Rights of Audience, she has significant experience in defending companies, senior directors and employees in corporate manslaughter and serious fire/health and safety prosecutions. 

Kizzy provides preventative consultancy advice to high-profile corporate and commercial clients concerning corporate policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with health and safety legislation, as well contentious, strategic advice in response to an actual incident. 

She also regularly represents clients at court, Enforcement Notice appeals and Coroners' inquests. 

Kizzy has a particular interest in health and safety leadership and governance risk, as well as the management of reputational risk for businesses - she often hosts conferences and provides training on the law relating to health and safety issues within the construction, healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, fire, rail and leisure/retail industries. 

Kizzy was previously at Russell-Cooke Solicitors, where she had been a Partner since 2018 and Pinsent Masons, leading their health and safety team in London for 10 years. 

Prior to this, she was the sole criminal regulatory and prosecutions lawyer at Enfield Council, responsible for prosecuting companies and individuals in breach of criminal regulatory legislation and providing advice to the Executive in respect of prosecutions against the Local Authority. 

She is a Co-opted Member of IOSH Council, member of the Health and Safety Lawyers Association and an Executive Committee trustee of the London Health and Safety Group. Kizzy is recognised by The Legal 500 in 2022 as an “exceptional Leading Individual” for health and safety. 

She is also highly ranked in Chambers & Partners in 2022, which describes her as “impressive, forward-thinking and really excellent at what she is doing”. 

She has been voted one of the top 15 health and safety influencers in the UK by around 600,000 global readers of the Safety & Health Practitioner.

Cost

APS Members: £25.00

Non-members: £30.00