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24/09/2008
Legislation will not improve health and safety, campaigner warns |
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Increasing the amount of legislation which governs health and safety in the UK is not going to help reduce the number of workplace accidents.
Instead, more emphasis should be placed on the responsibility of managers to improve the safety of the working environment of their staff.
That is the opinion of Danny Carrigan, chairman of the Partnership for Health and Safety in Scotland, reports the BBC.
Mr Carrigan will today (September 24th) express his concerns in a speech delivered to a Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents conference in Glasgow.
He is due to say: "I fundamentally believe that a real health and safety culture in any organisation can only happen if the people at the top believe it is the right thing to do - believe that it is right on moral grounds."
The chairman will assert that an "overly-prescriptive approach" which relies too heavily on filling out forms and ticking boxes will not help to solve anything.
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