HSE chief executive says health and safety often a term of “derision”

Too many organisations are wasting time on trivial risks and unnecessary paperwork, while not doing enough to tackle serious health and safety issues, it was claimed this week.

Geoffrey Podger, the HSE's chief executive told a gathering of health and safety practitioners that he was "concerned" about the quality of risk management, and that poor examples had led to health and safety becoming a "phrase of derision".

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