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Eddie Taylor
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I think that Professor Frank Wright has got it right; the phrase "reasonably practicable" is defined in the English dictionary by reference to these two words, and is also understood and accepted to be "the requirements of an employers to balance the degree of risk to employees against the cost and inconvenience of overcoming it". Are we now going to see the Law Commission spend thousands of pounds of tax payers money, trying to interpret the English language, in order to come up with another tone of phrase that will challange legal minds in defence of their clients. This could lead to the "ever decreasing circles syndrome" with something or someone eventually disappearing.
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Eddie Taylor
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I thought this link was suppose to take me to a Confined Spaces incident/ accident.
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Eddie Taylor
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If the HSC could name the people whose lives have been saved, along with their occupation, then do the same for those unfortunate souls whose lives were not saved; then we could determine a more sensible and focused approach as to where the efforts of the HSC, HSE and H&S professionals could be concentrated to make a greater impact on workplace health and safety. Overall statistics, such as these released by the HSC, are totally misleading when quoted out of true context. As John Shaw stated, the employment trends and shift in U.K. industries is possibly the biggest single contributing factor and if the HSC carried out a more in depth statistical analysis, with due consideration to all relevant factors, then perhaps we can start crowing about our success.
Having said all of that, I am confident that my H&S efforts have made a big improvement within my area of responsibility and I intend to continue preaching the word according to Lord Robens.
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