http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/09/07/confirmation-from-pirbright-health-and-safety-problems-in-public-sector/ Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Wokingham Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:04:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/09/07/confirmation-from-pirbright-health-and-safety-problems-in-public-sector/#comment-5716 Tony Makara Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:52:29 +0000 http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/2007/09/07/confirmation-from-pirbright-health-and-safety-problems-in-public-sector/#comment-5716 Good call John. The way I see it the state is always sloppy when it comes to health and safety standards. The fact that hospitals insist on hand-washing yet let visitors walk in wearing all manner of dirty footwear has always amazed me. The thing is, as your article points out, health and safety crises at government run institutions are not isolated incidents but are commonplace. As you say if anything remotely similar happened in privately owned labs we would get a unrelenting tirade of business-bashing from Labour. Good call John. The way I see it the state is always sloppy when it comes to health and safety standards. The fact that hospitals insist on hand-washing yet let visitors walk in wearing all manner of dirty footwear has always amazed me. The thing is, as your article points out, health and safety crises at government run institutions are not isolated incidents but are commonplace. As you say if anything remotely similar happened in privately owned labs we would get a unrelenting tirade of business-bashing from Labour.

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