Community Union members remember Workers' Memorial Day 2010 in South Wales
Community members in Region 5 commemorated Workers' Memorial Day on Wednesday.
Kevin Saunders Tredegar Tubes | Scott Bennett Tredegar Tubes | Walter Williams District 1,2,3 branch sec | Peter Hughes Harsco Celsa |
Steve Bennet District 1 | Steve Wilkes Coloursteel | Phil Jones Coloursteel | Ashley Cantello Coloursteel |
Mark Hill Llanwern | Gary O'Hara Tredegar Tubes Branch sec | Gary Stewart Llanwern |
General Secretary Michael J. Leahy OBE has said:
The recognition this year of Workers' Memorial Day as a national day to commemorate those that have died in the workplace through accident or misadventure is a welcome sign that Britain has come to recognise Health & Safety in the workplace as needing attention.
Health & Safety laws are smaller, simpler and safer than ever before. They have been proven to work, cutting workplace fatalities to a fraction of previous levels and yet they are attacked time and time again by politicians like David Cameron, whose most pressing danger in the workplace is a paper cut.
The Health and Safety Executive is dangerously under-strength, making a visit on average once every 38 years, yet David Cameron proposes to cut it still further. The question for David Cameron is what increase in the fatality rate is acceptable to pay down the debt?.’
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