[IER] What protection do workers have now?

Wed May 22 10:06:08 BST 2013

Dear IER supporter

For the past year we have been reporting on the disastrous changes the
Coalition is making to health and safety law. In the Enterprise and
Regulatory Reform Act, given Royal Assent last month, the government has
gone so far as removing employers' civil liability for the welfare of their
workers - an employment right that has been enshrined in law since the
Victorian era.

Is this a return to the 'dark Satanic mills'? How can workers and their
representatives fight back?

Please join us on June 12th in London or July 3rd in Liverpool to debate
changes to health and safety law, with some of the UK's top experts
providing detailed critique and practical advice on the removal of civil
liability, as well as cuts to the HSE, slashes to proactive inspections and
new policies to exempt self-employed workers from health and safety law
altogether.

Please see below for more information and booking details.

 <http://www.ier.org.uk/> Home

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Book now for Health and safety at work conferences

Buy upfront online or by cheque for early bird discounts!

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 <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work-0> London: 12 June
2013

Simon Hestor, Prospect, HSE Branch; Daniel Shears, GMB; Ben McBride,
Thompsons Solicitors; David Whyte, University of Liverpool; Tony Lennon,
BECTU; Steve Cottingham, O H Parsons; Hilda Palmer, Hazards Campaign

Three easy ways to pay:

 <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work> Book and pay online  

<http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Health%20and%20Safety%20London
%20flyer.pdf> Book and pay by cheque 

<http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Health%20and%20Safety%20London
%20flyer.pdf> Book and pay by invoice

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at Work Liverpoool Cover.jpg

 <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work-0> Liverpool: 03 July
2013

David Whyte, University of Liverpool; Hilda Palmer, Hazards Campaign; Daniel
Shears, GMB; Steve Cottingham, O H Parsons; Philip Liptrot, Thompsons
Solicitors; Neil Hope-Collins, Prospect HSE Branch; Andy Fisher, UCATT NW
Regional Secretary

Three easy ways to pay:

 <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work-0> Book and pay online

<http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Flyer%20Health%20and%20Safety%
20Liverpool%203-7-13.pdf> Book and pay by cheque 

<http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/Flyer%20Health%20and%20Safety%
20Liverpool%203-7-13.pdf> Book and pay by invoice

In London and Liverpool...

Health and safety at work

The Coalition is introducing some distinctly disturbing reforms to health
and safety regulation, including exempting some self employed people from
health and safety law, reviewing sector specific regulations for industries
such as mining, biocides and petroleum, reviewing all the Approved Codes of
Practice, and reforming the law to remove employers’ strict liability in
claims made by injured workers.

The Government has also announced that, from April 2013, hundreds of
thousands of businesses will be removed from the health and safety
inspection regime. Exemptions from inspection will extend across health,
education, prisons and emergency services, public transport including buses
and airports, the postal service, agriculture, docks, electricity generation
and ‘light’ manufacturing, including light engineering, plastics and rubber,
printing and electrical engineering. In other words, the vast majority of UK
employers will be effectively left to self-regulate.

As the wholesale withdrawal of the majority of workplaces from routine
inspection and the deregulation of health and safety continues, and the HSE
remains subject to funding cuts and staff shortages, where does that leave
workers?

We know from the experience of the construction industry that many bosses
will do all they can to avoid their health and safety responsibilities –
going as far as blacklisting trade unionists who fought to secure safety at
work for their members. In many workplaces, people still face an
unacceptable level of risk and sadly the numbers of injuries, illnesses and
fatalities remain unnecessarily high in many industries.

This conference will provide opportunities to get the latest information
about the progress of deregulating health and safety and the new inspection
and enforcement regimes including those affecting Local Authorities.

Institute experts from the law, academia and trade unions will provide
opinion and analysis that will help to identify how health and safety is
being undermined in the workplace and the best ways in which to fight for
workers’ rights.

Cost

A discount is available to those who pay upfront (before the date of the
conference) either online or by cheque. Those who pay by invoice will pay
full price.

Payment up front

£75 Subscribers and members
£90 trade unions
£220 Commercial

Payment by invoice

£80 Subscribers and members
£100 trade unions
£240 Commercial

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