Reviewing Lofstedt: what now for health and safety at work? Liverpool

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22/05/2012 09:30
Europe/London

Tuesday 22 May 2012

A one-day conference

Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool

9.30am

About the Conference

In 2011 the coalition government commissioned Professor Ragnar Löfstedt of King’s College London, aided by an independent panel, to review the so-called ‘burden’ on business of health and safety legislation. There was a call for evidence in July 2011, and ‘Reclaiming health and safety for all: an independent review of health and safety legislation’ was published in October 2011.

The report made a number of recommendations including simplifying the Approved Codes of Practice, and reviewing and consolidating a number of sector-specific regulations. A timetable of further tasks has now been put into place including plans to revoke regulations deemed to be ‘unnecessary’.

Although the world of work has certainly changed since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974 there is no reason to believe that the level of risk has diminished. The types of risks faced by workers and the gross numbers of injuries, illnesses and fatalities reported remain unacceptable in a civilized society.

In its response to the Löfstedt Review, three IER experts commented “While the government had implied a thoroughgoing undermining of health and safety law as a bureaucratic brake on business activity, the Review suggests no such thing. In fact, it largely endorses the current regulatory framework for health and safety and consequently does not appear to represent an explicit attempt to weaken its foundations”.

The questions are, will the recent review of health and safety and the report it generated, help to reduce accidents and injuries at work? What recommendations does the Löfstedt report make and will those recommendations help develop or dismantle the UK’s health and safety regime?

Conference Papers

Conference papers are now available to download below.

The following links may also be useful for those particularly interested in the gender issues discussed by Susan Murray, Health and Safety Officer at UNITE.

TUC Gender and OHS pages

ILO Providing Safe and Healthy workplaces for Women and Men

WHO toolkit Gender, Work and Health

European Agency for Safety and Health Gender factsheet

HSE Strategy

HSE Equality Objectives

HSE Gender pages

Speakers

David Whyte, University of Liverpool
The Lofstedt Review:A critical evaluation

James Taylor, Prospect HSE Branch Vice Chair
What Lofstedt means for the people who enforce the law

George Guy, UCATT
Construction industry, health and safety from the front line

Philip Liptrott, Thompsons Solicitors
Effects of the cuts on health and safety

Professor Andrew Watterson, University of Stirling
What the Lofstedt Review didn’t say

Susan Murray, Unite the Union
What’s missing from Lofsteft: a gender perspective

Daniel Shears, GMB
Life after Lofstedt: where do we go from here

Click here to download the full programme

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Billy Baldwin UCATT Health and Safety from the Front Line Part 1.ppt2.39 MB
Billy Baldwin, UCATT Health and Safety from the Front Line part 2.ppt3.5 MB
Billy Baldwin, UCATT Health and Safety from the Front Line part 3.ppt3.63 MB
Billy Baldwin, UCATT Health and Safety from the Front Line part 4.ppt2.44 MB
James Taylor Prospect HSE Branch - Loftstedt, what it means for the people who enforce the law.ppt327.5 KB
Philip Liptrot, Thompsons Solicitors.ppt1.22 MB
Andrew Watterson, Reclaiming Health and Safety for All Part 1.ppt867 KB
Andrew Watterson, Reclaiming Health and Safety for All Part 2.ppt643 KB
Dan Shears Life After Lofstedt Part 1.ppt1.38 MB
Dan Shears Life After Lofstedt Part 2.ppt1.29 MB
David Whyte The Lofstedt review a critical evaluation.ppt321.5 KB

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