MEOs have noted in a five year plan to reduce Health and Safety accidents by 25% by giving employers with good Health and Safety records tax incentives and preference in state tenders and other financial goodies.

Those with poor records will face tougher sanctions.

Call me cynical but will it just end up with financial penalties with those with poor safety records and if we are penalising those, isn’t there going to be less money to spend on Health and Safety in those companies anyway.

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