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The government has now issued an Order extending the health and safety detriment protection to workers, coming in to force on the 31st May 2021.
[National Law Review]
A report, HSE and COVID at work: a case of regulatory failure, put together by 11 specialists in occupational health and safety and labour law, has criticised the HSE and the Government for ‘not adequately enforcing’ it’s “COVID-secure” guidelines, adding that the Government’s strategy reveals an ‘underfunded, light-touch approach through an understaffed agency which failed to regulate the risk to workers’.
[SHP Online]
The case also provides an important precedent under the Scottish Fire Safety Regime, in particular the Fire Safety Scotland Act 2005 and related regulations developed following the tragedy at the Rosepark Care Home fire in 2004.
[SHP Online]
The government is to trial a series of measures in England, including Covid passports, to allow the safe return of sports matches, events and nightclubs.
Passes would show if a person had been vaccinated, had a recent negative test, or natural immunity.
[BBC News]