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Higher workplace
risk for migrants than for other workers
Research carried out by David Bergman and Ana-Maria
Pascal from the safety organisation CCA and published by legal experts
at Irwin Mitchell Solicitors last year shows that migrant workers
employed in the construction sector are at least twice as likely to die
at work than those from the UK. Migrant deaths in other sectors is also
on the increase, with the number of fatalities of non-UK workers up from
nine in 2005/6 to 18 in 2007/8 and the proportion also doubling from
4.1% to 7.9% in the same period, against figures showing that 5.4% of
the total workforce comprises migrants. To download the report,
click here.
International
comparison of health & safety duties imposed on company directors
A CCA report which shows that seven out of the
nine countries studied contain safety legislation that imposes positive
safety obligations upon either directors or senior managers of
companies. These are: Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Canada
(four out of fourteen jurisdictions) and Australia (two out of nine
jurisdictions).
There is, in addition, another category of jurisdictions which, whilst
not imposing explicit positive duties upon directors, do impose
significant responsibilities through the creation of offences that are
targeted at directors. This category includes four Australian states. To
download the report,
click here.
CCA Guidance on the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate
Homicide Act 2007
The safety organisation Centre for Corporate Accountability published a
guide on the new CMCH Act, which came into force in April 2008;
click here to
download it as a PDF file.
Incidents reported to the Health & Safety Executive: Lack of
Investigations
A 2008 CCA/Unite the Union report into the level of HSE
investigations between 2001/2007.
Click here
to download.
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