Legislating for safety

Author: MISM William Walsh ACIS  

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

ISSN: 0040-0912

Source: Education + Training, Vol.16, Iss.11, 1993-12, pp. : 276-300

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Abstract

The Royal Assent to the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 received a sixteen line paragraph in Topics for September. In dozens of journals it did not even rate a mention. But if what Lord Robens in his 1972 Report saw as necessary for securing better standards of health and safety at work is to be realised, the education and training programme necessary is wide and deep.