A Deadly Consensus

[brothermagrew]

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This paper documents the vulnerability of the UK workplace safety regime to ‘ regulatory degradation ’ .
Following a brief overview of this regime, the paper examines the dominant arguments within
academic literature on appropriate and feasible regulatory enforcement, arguing that the approaches
to regulation thereby advocated have been easily degraded as a result of their compatibility with neoliberal
economic strategy. A subsequent analysis of empirical trends within safety enforcement reveals
a virtual collapse of formal enforcement, as political and resource pressures have taken their toll on
the regulatory authority. Finally, the paper indicates that the increasing impunity with which
employers can kill and injure is particularly problematic as we enter sustained economic recession,
and underlines the urgent need for regulatory alternatives.

[stokes11eg]

Basically--a long winded way of saying employers don't give two hoots about the safety of their Workers!
I wonder how much these experts have been paid for their contribution to this goobledaydook?