News brief - 28/04/20 View this email in your browser
The UK’s health and safety laws deliberately fall below international norms, and workers are paying the price
In a new report for the IER, due for release next week, Professor David Whyte and Andrew Moretta examine the UK's non-compliance with international health and safety standards. The UK has ratified fewer than one in five ILO health and safety conventions, putting it below almost all European Union and OECD nations and on a par with Libya, Mozambique and Saudi Arabia.
Introducing the new book, Editor of Hazards Magazine, Rory O'Neill warns that the UK's position puts not only its own workers at risk but sets a low standard for the rest of the world too - including countries from which we buy our goods and services.
While trade unions have had a powerful impact through agreeing safe working conditions with employers, Rory concludes we must go further and agree as a nation that our workers deserve to be protected by laws that meet the international standards.
Read the full report
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