TUC calls for legally-binding safety duties on directors

The TUC has said that the case for legally-binding safety duties on company directors is ‘watertight’, adding they would be ‘the biggest driver yet in changing boardroom attitudes towards health and safety.’ The TUC said the current law ‘means that if a board of directors refuses to have any involvement in health and safety, however bad the record of the company, there is almost nothing that can be done to force them to take responsibility beyond disqualification (which is almost never done).’