This week’s TUC Risks E-zine reports on a campaign by two leading health & safety publications to introduce statutory health & safety duties for Directors. Check out the petition call and detailed arguments here.The voluntary approach previously agreed with the HSE and business leaders has pretty clearly failed. The only way to get rogue companies and organisations to take their responsibility seriously for workers and public safety is the threat of criminal law sanctions.
Well run organisations have nothing to fear but action is desperately needed since it is estimated that 9 out of 10 injuries at work are attributable to management failure.
I remember attending a trade union safety conference some years ago where a Conservative MP (forget his name) who was also a company director was a panel speaker. He said that he did not understand that he faced imprisonment as a Company director if he allowed fraud to take place but not if negligently allowed his workers to be killed.
(pic from memorial in Three Mills Green Park - Newham)
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