Tory Plans Will Increase Workplace Deaths

Fewer than 1 in every 15 major injuries at work now result in a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) investigation. Justice suffers too, with absolutely no HSE enforcement action in almost 98 per cent of cases. But Tory plans to give firms a get-out-of-jail card could make a bad situation much, much worse, Hazards editor Rory O’Neill warns.

This is the leader into one of the most important articles written about the plans that David Cameron has for health & safety legislation in the UK. Backed by the media and business organisations such as the Federation of Small Businesses and the CBI, they see health and sdafety legislation as the scapegoat wearing red tape.

With a plan to introduce US style health and safety enforcement, the UK will become one of the worlds biggest killers of people at work alongside the US.

Click the pic to read the full Hazards article Escaping Scrutiny from Rory O'Neill.

See also:

Tory Publish Policy Attack On Health & Safety

Tories Declare War On H&S Legislation

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