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Unions urged to lobby HSE to report on workplace suicides
A general view of a school safety zone sign, January 3, 2021

THE Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been urged to identify Ofsted inspections as “considerable factors in work-related suicides.”

Delegates at the National Education Union’s (NEU) annual conference backed the measure in a motion today.

They agreed to campaign against the HSE’s “failure to recognise that work-related stress” resultsfrom incidents such as Ofsted inspections.

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