Every day 60 people die due to work - Health and Safety laws matter
18 October 2010Steve Tombs and David WhyteThe authors of a new IER book, Regulatory Surrender: death, injury and the non-enforcement of law reject Lord Young’s health and safety proposals, noting they...
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David Whyte and Steve Tombs: Image courtesy of unionsafety.eu16 May 2012How does the coalition continue to get away with peddling such nonsense? David Whyte and Steve Tombs explore.read more
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Steve TombsSteve TombsSteve Tombs is Professor of Sociology at John Moore's University, Liverpool. He has previously written publications covering health and safety issues with David Whyte.read more
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Steve TombsDavid Whyte6 March 2015By Professor Steve Tombs, Open University and Professor David Whyte, Liverpool University Steve Tombs and David Whyte analyse Richard Baker MSP’s new draft Bill for...
View ArticleHow much 'Better' can 'Better Regulation' get?
14 October 2016Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, The Open UniversityThis week, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee published an evaluation of the Better Regulation initiative. The...
View ArticleThis is how we can properly protect the health and safety of workers
26 May 2017By Phil James, Professor of Employment Relations at Middlesex University; David Walters, Professor of Work Environment at Cardiff University; Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology at the...
View ArticleHealth and Safety: Undoing Social Protection
23 June 2017By Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, the Open University"It's going to come to the point where it's going to affect the residents, the local population, in many ways we are at that...
View ArticleDangerous Times: health and safety protections under attack
30 June 2017By Steve Tombs, Professor of Criminology, Open UniversitySince 2010, the Coalition, then the Tories, have both continued and significantly extended some of the ‘reforms’ initiated by Blair...
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