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The Health and Safety Executive that maybe getting less safe? |
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The government is introducing a corporate crime bill with no jail terms for corporate criminals. The Health and Safety Executive is ripping up large chunks of its “naming and shaming” database. And the next official health and safety visit you get may be from an “adviser” not an inspector. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill investigates the watchdog that doesn’t want to bite.
It is easy to criticise the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It has a tough job, few resources and faces conflicting pressures from unions, campaigners and employers.
But a Hazards investigation of HSE’s recent practice – including a forensic examination of its recent policy statements and a series of 20 Freedom of Information Act requests – reveals HSE’s top brass is making up policy on the hoof and tripping over itself to accommodate a deregulatory push from government and the employer lobby.
Here’s Hazards’ top 10 reasons HSE sucks. Read full article at:
http://www.hazards.org/totalsuckup/
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