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Coordinating group
Health and Safety
Lobby of
Parliament
Wednesday
2nd March 2011
London
BRIEFING
Institute of Employment Rights
4th Floor, Jack Jones House, Islington, Liverpool L3 8EG
Tel: 0151 207 5265 Fax: 0151 207 5264
www.ier.org.uk office@ier.org.uk
Monday 14th February 2011
Only last week, the Institute of Directors was calling for further deregulation which unions, campaigners and the IER say will risk workers’ lives. The Institute is working with the Trade Union Coordinating Group to promote a week of action on health and safety issues, from 28th February to 3rd March.
To ensure that trade unionists are armed with the best arguments, the Institute has put together a briefing on the danger of deregulating health and safety, written by Steve Tombs and David Whyte.
As part of the week, the TUCG are holding a lobby of Parliament on 2 March. PCS have helped trade unionists to make an appointment to see their MP here More information on the week of action is here Download a copy of IER’s Briefing and take one to give to your MP.
Tombs and Whyte are experts in the field of health and safety and have written a publication for the Institute, Regulatory surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law which is based upon close analysis of government, parliamentary and civil service documents.
The result of their research is a battery of statistics, including the shocking revelation that prosecutions following deaths at work have fallen from 46% to 28% in six years.
As the report notes, legislation backed by credible enforcement, is what makes employers commit to occupational health and safety. Advice, education and compromise will only ever function against a back drop of effective enforcement. Cuts to the HSE and proposals to deregulate still further will reduce inspections, enforcements and prosecutions to a level that the authors argue represents a dereliction of duty and a danger to working people.
We are sure this publication will have wide interest not just to those
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Health and Safety
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2nd March 2011
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BRIEFING
Institute of Employment Rights
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Tel: 0151 207 5265 Fax: 0151 207 5264
www.ier.org.uk office@ier.org.uk
Monday 14th February 2011
Only last week, the Institute of Directors was calling for further deregulation which unions, campaigners and the IER say will risk workers’ lives. The Institute is working with the Trade Union Coordinating Group to promote a week of action on health and safety issues, from 28th February to 3rd March.
To ensure that trade unionists are armed with the best arguments, the Institute has put together a briefing on the danger of deregulating health and safety, written by Steve Tombs and David Whyte.
As part of the week, the TUCG are holding a lobby of Parliament on 2 March. PCS have helped trade unionists to make an appointment to see their MP here More information on the week of action is here Download a copy of IER’s Briefing and take one to give to your MP.
Tombs and Whyte are experts in the field of health and safety and have written a publication for the Institute, Regulatory surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law which is based upon close analysis of government, parliamentary and civil service documents.
The result of their research is a battery of statistics, including the shocking revelation that prosecutions following deaths at work have fallen from 46% to 28% in six years.
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involved in health and safety but to all those concerned with the
accelerated shift towards deregulation, privatisation and the proposed diminution of the role of the state.
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