Health and Safety Required
Sir Callaghan, the former chairman for the HSE stated workplace health and safety is important.
Sir Bill Callaghan spoke up about David Cameron’s discussion last week. Cameron stated that health and safety is a “monster” and the regulations need to be adjusted to decrease red tape. Callaghan does not agree. He stated instead that health and safety exists as a mark of civilised society. It is a requirement to ensure safety at the workplace and in other places. To destroy the concept of workplace health and safety would be to destroy a part of civilised culture.
He is challenging Cameron’s decision and thinking that fewer regulations are needed for health and safety at work in order to promote business growth. Callaghan believes health and safety is required in order to make daily life reasonable at work. Basically, he believes the regulations must be sensible and proportionate in order to protect lives at work. His position is conservative as opposed to Cameron’s, who many believe to be for “big society” rather than the help of all.
In fact, the recent figures of those killed, injured, or with disease at work have become lower in the last 200 years because of existing health and safety regulations. The numbers of deaths at work are still high, such as those in London that have recently doubled rather than decreased in a year. It suggests there is a definite need for better regulation at some work locations to ensure that the number of deaths and major injuries will be reduced.
