Cons - Reducing the burden and impact of health and safety

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LTB 1069/09 - David Cameron - Reducing the burden and impact of health and safety [The Tory Threat]
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No. 1069/09
Ref EX10
Date: 7 December 2009

To: All Branches

Dear Colleagues

David Cameron - Reducing the burden and impact of health and safety [The Tory Threat]

Tory Leader David Cameron has delivered a speech attacking Health and Safety at Work in which he said there were too many regulations and a volume of bureaucratic gold plated rules imported from Brussels in what he called the UK's over-the-top health and safety culture. One in a long line of similar Tory speeches over recent years, he and the Tory Party want to sweep away health and safety laws and regulations at every opportunity, bringing back common sense, discretion and personal responsibility so he says!

Cameron's latest speech gives a real insight into the Conservatives health and safety thinking. There is no coherent strategy and no developed proposals.

Kenneth Clark's proposals, announced at the Tory Conference in October, to allow companies to self-regulate and opt-out of HSE Inspection, simply by obtaining an independent audit, is not mentioned after the recent condemnation the idea received by the Chair of the HSE.

The speech seems to consist of little more than a medley of already discredited Daily Mail 'bonkers-conkers' type headlines and has very little substance or accuracy.

Cameron's advisers and speech writers are clearly out of touch. He says there is too much health and safety regulation. In fact there were more than twice as many health and safety regulations and laws 35 years ago than there are now and today's safety laws are simpler and easier to understand.

Cameron and a Tory Government would seem happy to perpetuate a UK safety culture which is dangerously dysfunctional, blighted by under-resourced regulators with a fainthearted enforcement policy and where workers are actively discouraged from raising safety concerns. A system that gives a nod and a wink to employers that can put workers at risk with virtual impunity.

The speech also faces both ways! On closer reading, there is an acceptance from Cameron that the health and safety regime is overall both robust and effective! and ironically he even praises trade unions!, saying "trade unions remain a bulwark against most abuse happening".

When it comes to the next General Election workers will decide the result and they need to think carefully about the Tory threat to their wellbeing at work. David Cameron has never done a hard days work in his life. Brought up into an illustrious family and with a £30 million fortune in the bank, he lives on a different planet and can never even begin to imagine the types of workplaces in which 250,000 UK workers were injured last year - something he and his Tory colleagues has never, ever mentioned.

Yours Sincerely

Dave Joyce
National Health, Safety and Environment Officer

Attached Find a copy of David Cameron's Speech plus Press Releases from the TUC and STUC

STUC issues H&S Challenger to DC.doc

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camerons speech in full.doc

[mailman71]

heaven help the working class if cameron and his muppets get in.

[THEPITBULL]

What a joke.....


Do you not realise that the health and saftey rules are set by LLOYDS OF LONDON ?

Neither the tories or labour have any say in what the HSE do or say and both have to allow the rules that Lloyds of Londin have set. These are made ny the HSC and implemented by the HSE, Just try and remember of you pay insurance you are already payong for the HSE to do the jobs.......


A little note 99.9% of health and safety is common sense.......


THEPITBULL




and yes I used to work for the HSE

[brothermagrew]

What a joke.....


Do you not realise that the health and saftey rules are set by LLOYDS OF LONDON ?

Neither the tories or labour have any say in what the HSE do or say and both have to allow the rules that Lloyds of Londin have set. These are made ny the HSC and implemented by the HSE, Just try and remember of you pay insurance you are already payong for the HSE to do the jobs.......


A little note 99.9% of health and safety is common sense.......


THEPITBULL

and yes I used to work for the HSE

Do tell, then kindly please explain how someone who claims to have worked for the HSE hasn't yet realised that the HSC & HSE have merged.

1.To improve governance arrangements, the Health and Safety Commission and the current three person Health and Safety Executive have agreed to merge into a new unitary body, bringing together their powers and functions, and retaining the name Health and Safety Executive. In doing so, they are committed to maintaining the current legal position whereby only duly authorised officials make individual enforcement decisions.

[norbert]

heaven help the working class if cameron and his muppets get in.

back to 80's & 90's "accidents will happen" - if the scaffolding collapses on a building site & someone is hurt , don't call a ambulance as it's traceable , keep your mouth shut or you'll / we'll all get sacked .

New Labour are a terrible government , all this third way - we are so clever nonsense that has collapsed under the weight of it's own contradictions so there's the " we are c**ts but they are complete tw*** " choice " " and all these turkeys voting for christmas

Strangely enough "Sunny Jim " Callaghan said that about Thatcher years ago .