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Labour MP Stephen Hepburn has continued his campaign for tougher laws to prevent workplace death and injury by placing the issue centrestage in a 20 January Commons debate. He urged health and safety minister Jane Kennedy to listen to calls for legally binding health and safety duties on company directors and to support his private member?s bill. He pressed the case for the Health and Safety (Directors' Duties) Bill during a Commons debate which was prompted by a highly critical select committee report into government's health and safety strategy. The July 2004 report included a recommendation that a law on directors? duties be introduced. Stephen Hepburn MP said: 'I am deeply disappointed that the government has rejected the committee's commonsense recommendation on directors? duties, preferring instead to rely on a combination of existing law and voluntary guidance.' He added: 'As with all voluntary codes, there are no incentives to encourage you to follow them and no sanctions to punish you for breaching them.' Stephen Hepburn's bill received its first reading on 12 January 2005 and is expected to be debated in the Commons in early March. The Bill is supported by various Unions and safety campaign groups. |
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