Cost of UK health and safety laws heavily dependent on EU directives<BR>

For the first time ever, construction firms have openly admitted in court that they supplied information to a blacklist file and that the reason they added the information was to penalise the worker because of his trade union activities and because he raised health and safety issues. The dramatic revelations came during the case of

Nag, nag, nag: If you click on that, you will see that this snap was snapped in a hardware store. A randomly selected one, as it happens, near to where I live. I've said it before, and I'll say it again, health and safety is, among other things, a business, and therefore an interest. If it diminished, money would be lost, money which knows it would be lost and which would therefore speak...

The Coalition has pledged to "kill off the health and safety monster" by limiting the fees lawyers can earn from personal injury claims.

David Cameron has pledged to cut back the health and safety legislation "monster" by capping lawyers referral fees for personal injury claims against employers.

Prime minister says government will try to protect business from ‘litigous culture’ and cap legal fees in disputes

Prime Minister David Cameron has spoken out against the negative impact that the "monster" of health and safety regulations can have on UK businesses.

Christmas office decorations, playground snowball fights and coins in puddings have all been wrongly banned as health and safety risks, the Government has revealed.

Unnecessary EU health and safety regulations are harming UK business, writes Ragnar Lofstedt.

Irresponsible workers who are injured at work because of their own mistakes should not be able to sue their employers for damages, a review of health and safety rules will say next week.