EEF hails safety report

Posted on 15 Oct 2010 by The Manufacturer

The manufacturers’ organisation today welcomed Lord Young’s report on health and safety, describing it as “a victory for common sense.”

However, unions derided it, saying it was a missed opportunity to prevent death and injury at work and was based on “myths”. The recommendations of the report have all been accepted by the government, including: – Forcing councils to pay compensation for events wrongly cancelled on health and safety grounds. – Controls on the “volume…

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