23 mins, 2012        [password required] Key Topics Risk Assessment Health & Safety Executive Accidents Negligence Fatalities PART 1: Introduction The Health & Safety At Work act is one of the most important pieces of employment legislation - but what does it mean to employers and employees? Employers are obliged to make risk assessments at the place of work and take steps to manage and minimise dangers. They must also have a safety policy, stating who is responsible for safety. Some employers think health and safety legislation has gone too far. The ban on smoking in the workplace in 2006 was difficult for businesses like pubs - but has had a positive impact on people's health. The Health & Safety Executive is the body which is supposed to enforce health and safety legislation - but are they falling short? PART 2: The Victims Three gripping stories of people who suffered accidents at work due to the negligence of their employers. Lewis Murphy was just 18 when he was killed by a fire in the garage where he was working. Mark Wright was killed in an explosion in a recycling plant. Electrician Michael Adamson died while working on a live wire marked "not in use". All employers were found guilty of breaches of health and safety laws - but the families of those who died feel justice was not done. EXTRA: "Three Deaths in the Workplace." This film provides more evidence of the way in which lives can be lost when companies take insufficient care of the safety of their employees.

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