Stop the deregulation drive: sensible health, safety and environmental protections are a force for good
The UK has been a global leader when it comes to many social and environmental protections.
By Emma Rose, Unchecked UK on 16 July 2023
Brexit
Cancer-causing substances: what will Brexit mean?
UK businesses may have to continue to meet any future new European Union exposure limits for carcinogenic substances at work if they are to avoid compensation claims.
By Professor Kevin Bampton on 13 April 2021
The challenges of regulation and its enforcement
Any post-Brexit review of the UK’s health and safety laws must not result in a watering down of workers’ rights, argues Mike Robinson.
By Mike Robinson on 16 March 2021
Brexit: we need to maintain our safety standards
Following years of complex negotiations, a Trade and Cooperation Agreement has now been reached between the European Union (EU) and the UK, setting out the framework for future relations.
By Peter McGettrick on 01 February 2021
Responding to a risky world
2020 has started with some big risks high up in the news. From fires in Australia as a harbinger of the climate’s power, to violence in the Middle East and, closer to home, the risks involved in leaving the EU, it is these large risks that tend to dominate our attention.
By on 03 February 2020
Brexit
As the Brexit story unfolds, more details will be known about future occupational safety and health regulations. It is therefore likely that some of the issues still uncertain at the time this magazine goes to press will be clearer in just a few days, when these pages reach you. Or not. Because if something we have learned through the Brexit process is that deferments and new scenarios have found a fertile territory in the public debate after 23 June 2016. Iris Cepero
By on 01 March 2019
For better, not for worse
Unless you’re a political junkie or have been living on another planet in recent times, there is a sense of weariness about the apparently endless shenanigans surrounding the UK voting in a referendum to leave the world’s largest multicountry trading bloc and the way in which that is being haltingly translated into action by Members of Parliament.
By Lawrence Waterman OBE on 01 March 2019
Control means the ability to regulate effectively
For over four decades, the EU has been the final safety net for workers in the UK. With their rights enshrined in EU law they knew that whatever domestic government policy objectives, there was a minimum standard below which their rights could not fall. This has not only cemented employment laws, but also workplace, product and industrial safety.
By Mike Clancy on 01 March 2019
Not the time for complacency
Brexit could be an opportunity to toughen up on CE marking compliance writes Neil Hewitt, Arco
By Neil Hewitt on 01 March 2019
Preserving the values of a robust system
With the date for the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU looming, future relations remain to be agreed; but as matters currently stand, what can we say about the likely effect of departure on health and safety law in the UK?
By Laura Cameron on 01 March 2019
