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Front-line workers need effective health and safety – especially in our schools
A decade of cuts to ‘red tape’ has undermined efforts to keep workplaces safe against the transmission of the deadly coronavirus, says PATRICK ROACH
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A DECADE ago, the Conservative-led coalition government branded health and safety as mere “red tape.”
Schools were designated as low-risk environments and the message to school employers was to exercise their common sense while the government systematically set about a renewed “red tape” challenge, cutting rights and undermining the safety of workers.
Roll forward 10 years, and health and safety has been brought centre stage as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic.
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