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Years of attacks mean our health and safety system is well and truly broken
For decades many on the right of the political spectrum in Britain have strategically described health and safety as pointless red tape, leaving workers to suffer illness, injury and even death, warns REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP

AS THE TUC has said, every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don’t die of mystery ailments, or in tragic freak “accidents.” They die because an employer or indeed the government decided their safety just wasn’t that important a priority.

No worker goes to work to die, but as the Hazards campaign estimated in March this year, at least six million workers are made ill and 60,000 are killed.

Sadly the real number of people injured by work is estimated to be many times more than the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) estimate.

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