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Nov 12, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Matthew Sulley |Pinsent Masons |Mike Robinson FCA |Ashton Cull
As we know, the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (HSWA) imposes duties on employers to ensure the health, safety and welfare of employees and not to expose others affected by their activities to health and safety risks, insofar as is reasonably practicable.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Ashton Cull |Mike Robinson FCA |Matthew Holder
In recent years, there has been a noticeable decline in the number of drivers entering and remaining in the road transport sector. Antisocial working hours and long periods away from support networks make it a difficult career choice for many. Physical and mental health issues among drivers are made much worse by the poor-quality roadside facilities they have to use while doing the job we all rely on them to do.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Mike Robinson FCA |Ashton Cull |Matthew Holder
When all is said and done, we are all going to be affected by such a wide-ranging and significant Budget, whose main task was laying the groundwork for longer-term investment in things like infrastructure, housing and public services. Photograph: iStock/stocknsharesAll of which will take time to bear fruit. During which, we’ll have another election and plenty of other events to contend with.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Mike Robinson FCA |Ashton Cull |Matthew Holder
When all is said and done, we are all going to be affected by such a wide-ranging and significant Budget, whose main task was laying the groundwork for longer-term investment in things like infrastructure, housing and public services. Photograph: iStock/stocknsharesAll of which will take time to bear fruit. During which, we’ll have another election and plenty of other events to contend with.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
shorturl.at | Mike Robinson FCA |Faye Law |Charlotte O'Kane |Hannah Frost
Indeed, a number of major roadblocks stand in the way of Keir Starmer delivering on any one of the five ‘missions’ he set for his Government, and indeed its ‘first steps’. Consider just one of these; to build 1.5 million new homes during the course of this Parliament. Delivering this means building 50 per cent more homes than the last Government did over the same period.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Mike Robinson FCA |Charlotte O'Kane |Hannah Frost |Pinsent Masons
Indeed, a number of major roadblocks stand in the way of Keir Starmer delivering on any one of the five ‘missions’ he set for his Government, and indeed its ‘first steps’. Consider just one of these; to build 1.5 million new homes during the course of this Parliament. Delivering this means building 50 per cent more homes than the last Government did over the same period.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Charles Pickles |Faye Law |Mike Robinson FCA |Charlotte O'Kane
Campaigning for a national 40-year asbestos strategyThe current deaths are due to past exposure, as asbestos diseases typically have a latency period of 25 to 60 years. Thankfully, the death rates from asbestos-related disease may have, or surely will begin to decline shortly, due primarily to bold legislative action to ban high-risk asbestos in 1983/4 and all asbestos as late as 1999. The lesson here is that strong action has and will save many thousands of lives.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Mick Dawson |Faye Law |Mike Robinson FCA |Charlotte O'Kane
Three years ago, the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee instigated an inquiry into the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE’s) approach to asbestos management in the UK. In this article, we revisit the findings of the inquiry¹ and also examine the progress made since the Government, via HSE, published its response² to the inquiry report in 2022.
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Sep 2, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Mike Robinson FCA
On the one hand, we have this simple, more predictable formula, which people get to know and rely on, and which stands the test of time. On the other, both allow space for innovation, change and new ideas, and both have reflected and catered for developments in society over the past 50 years. Photograph: iStock/Khanchit KhirisutchahualAm I taking this too far? Perhaps.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Lucy Thorpe |Mike Robinson FCA
In 2019, after decades of health and safety regulation being undermined by an anti-health and safety narrative, and enforcement being impacted by cuts in resources, the Hazards Campaign produced our Decent jobs and decent lives manifesto¹. We called on the soon-to-be-elected government of December 2019 to:End (health and safety) deregulation and restore regulations and enforcement as a social good.
