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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