Health and safety bodies in ‘call to arms’ over scrapping of EU laws

A group of health and safety leaders issued “a call to arms” for the government to scrap the arbitrary deadlines of the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill as it returned to parliament last month.

Organisations including the BOHS, BSC, IOSH and RoSPA health and safety charities and trade associations, as well as the CIEH environmental health and safety regulator, issued a joint statement. They made clear that: “To ensure the safety and health outcomes of Britain’s workforce and therefore the resilience of its businesses, regulations must be reviewed sensibly, with due scrutiny and in consultation with both the occupational safety and health profession and business leaders”.

They added: “Rushing to implement the bill as it stands, without clarity on which laws the bill covers, and with the sunset clauses it contains, will undermine our health and safety standards and protections.”