123. Memorandum submitted by Simone Plant
Attending a recent legal conference for Safety
Practitioners where the presenters were solicitors was a shocking
experience.
If you want to neglect safety for your staff,
work for a big faceless organisation . . . your chances of getting
away with it are far higher.
This has to stop.
Big wealthy organisations can absorb the costs
of big fines and high legal costs.
This is disproportionately unfair on smaller
organisations and makes them less competitive.
It is high time the burden fell equally . .
. bigger organisations can afford to be legally compliant . .
. smaller ones less so.
Learning about business in a big conglomerate
sets up those setting out on their own with unrealistic understanding
of the importance of safety. Murdering employees through poor
safety practices is seen as a cost effective strategy . . . this
must change.
15 May 2005
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