Urgent Need To Get Involved With The Fight Back Against H&S Cuts

Hazards magazine has produced a detailed report aimed at supporting everyone in their campaign against the cuts that the Con-Dem(ned) government are introducing in their aim to remove health and safety protection from the workers of the UK. Furthermore, as the report shows, they are also intent on making sure that whenever there is an accident or death, victims and their families have little chance of claiming compensation, as they savage the Legal Aid scheme.

This weeks TUC Risks argues that:

"Unions and safety campaigners must escalate their efforts to combat a government assault on workplace safety regulation and enforcement.."

It goes on:

" The rallying call comes in 'Dangerous li(v)es', published online and in the new issue of the workers' health and safety magazine Hazards, and condemns a 'savage funding cut' to the Health and Safety Executive combined with a dilution of safety rules as 'a political project driven by the business lobby and built around dangerous lies'. The report refutes a series of myths about workplace safety."

The report details several issues that need to be addressed, including that of the argument that firms will 'do the right thing' On this the report states "Some do, but enough don't - enough to damage the health of millions of UK workers every year.' It adds that modern workplaces, small workplaces and offices are not immune from problems, and in fact contribute to record numbers of people being made ill as a result of their work"

The report also systematically dismantles arguments about health and safety regulations and enforcement being a burden on business. It says: "The business lobby's top bugbear is risk assessments, which it complains are petty bureaucracy and a burden. But if you are too dumb to easily and quickly complete a risk assessment on your own business activities, you are too dumb to run that business."

The report poster and associated posters form part of a "We didn't vote to die at work" campaign kit, complementing TUC resources and created to help union reps argue the case for life-saving safety rules and enforcement.

Click the pic above to go to the report.

Source: TUC Risks

 

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