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BRITAIN’s 40 years of “resistance, derision and misrepresentation” of health and safety law is leading to “tragic outcomes in the fight against Covid-19,” the Institute for Employment Rights (IER) revealed yesterday.
According to a report by the institute, Britain has gone from being a leader in the development and support of international labour law to being among the three worst countries in the European Union for the protection of workplace health and safety.
Britain’s record is so bad that it is now on a par with Saudi Arabia, North Macedonia and Cameroon.
In one instance, the government refused to sign an International Labour Organisation convention because it objected to being obliged to provide workers with personal protective equipment.
The report said: “This lax attitude to the health of workers has shown through in the course of the coronavirus crisis to devastating effect.”
IER director Carolyn Jones said: “The pressing need to abide by collectively recognised international health and safety standards could not be more acute.”
