Further to our earlier forecast that Lord Young would present his report today (21 September 2010), it now seems that it will now be further delayed - following the Cameron paternity and bereavement until the Conservative Party conference to be held in Birmingham 3-6 October 2010. The report is eagerly awaited by health and safety practitioners and the media alike. In a move clearly designed to play to the party faithful, the government seems set to scrap a number of what right-leaning newspapers call “petty rules and laws”; it blames the previous Labour government for allowing a rise in bureaucratic health and safety red tape.
In moves presumably intended to pave the way for the Prime Minister’s presentation of the report, a number of newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, are using increasingly divisive language. A comment article published by the Telegraph talks about health and safety laws as “weapons” used to “pursue an impossible object: the elimination of risk from human activity”. The same article summarises that “if the report succeeds in bringing an end to the caution that is paralysing public services and strangling individual initiative, it will have achieved an enormously important change. With the exception of those over-zealous, interfering officials – who no doubt do all they can to frustrate its implementation – it is a blueprint from which everyone will benefit.”
Stephen Asbury of Corporate Risk Systems says: "We have waited long enough for this report, and its publication is now overdue. Whatever its says, we'll still be here providing sensible and proportional health and safety advice and training. Its frustrating that deregulation and lowering of standards in the world's safest country is being used by the coalition as part of a political football match."
In moves presumably intended to pave the way for the Prime Minister’s presentation of the report, a number of newspapers, including the Daily Telegraph, are using increasingly divisive language. A comment article published by the Telegraph talks about health and safety laws as “weapons” used to “pursue an impossible object: the elimination of risk from human activity”. The same article summarises that “if the report succeeds in bringing an end to the caution that is paralysing public services and strangling individual initiative, it will have achieved an enormously important change. With the exception of those over-zealous, interfering officials – who no doubt do all they can to frustrate its implementation – it is a blueprint from which everyone will benefit.”
Stephen Asbury of Corporate Risk Systems says: "We have waited long enough for this report, and its publication is now overdue. Whatever its says, we'll still be here providing sensible and proportional health and safety advice and training. Its frustrating that deregulation and lowering of standards in the world's safest country is being used by the coalition as part of a political football match."
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