Don't give up on Health and Safety
Words like ‘downturn’ and ‘recession’ have been ringing around the business world
for quite some time now. Many organisations will look for ways to trim costs in
order to improve their economic situation. Often one of the first areas to suffer
cuts is health and safety. Here Stephen Thomas of the Safety Technical Team at
Croner Consulting discusses why putting health and safety on hold may not be
such a good move.
Don’t leave it to chance
The first and perhaps most important point to make
is that a company’s duty of care to its employees
and others does not disappear just because of
financial hardship. There have been a number of
prosecutions of companies where employees have
been harmed or killed where the employer has
broken health and safety law simply because it
saved them time and money.
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