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Lord Robens Report

What is the (1972) Lord Robens Report Explain its major provisions and impacts on management of workplace safety and health. [Pg.52]

As if problems such as these were not enough to call into question the wisdom of the detailed prescriptive approach which had been requested by the Sea Gem Inquiry and enthusiastically endorsed by Parliament, there is in fact one more issue that appears to hammer a final nail into the coffin. Recognising that health and safety at work was a general problem in all industries, a government-sponsored inquiry had been established under the chairmanship of Lord Robens to consider the matter in its entirety. Reporting in 1972, after the passing of the Mineral Workings (Offshore Installations) Act but before it had entered into force, the... [Pg.137]

Lord Robens (1972) Safety and Health at Work Report of the Committee 1970-72 (The Roberts Report) (London HMSO). [Pg.215]

A Private Member s Bill aimed at providing for the compulsory involvement of workers in accident prevention was withdrawn when in 1970 a committee was set up under the chairmanship of Lord Robens to look at safety and health at work. After studying the whole problem in depth the committee reported in 1972 making many recommendations of a wide ranging nature. [Pg.33]

The Report of the Robens Committee (1972) represents a watershed in thinking about occupational health and safety in Britain. In May 1970 the then Labour Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, Barbara Castle, appointed a Committee of Inquiry to undertake a wide-ranging review of health and safety in Great Britain. The Committee was Chaired by Lord Robens and its remit was to examine critically the provision made for the safety and health of persons in the course of their employment (1972, p. xiv) and to consider whether changes were needed and, if so, of what type. Three main factors prompted this enquiry ... [Pg.37]

Lord Robens was asked, in 1970, to review the provision made for the health and safety of people at work. His report produced conclusions and recommendations upon which the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 was based. The principal recommendations were as follows ... [Pg.10]

Safety and Health at Work (1972). Report of the Committee 1970- 72, Chairman Lord Robens. HMSO, Cmnd. 5034, London. [Pg.129]

Robens. Lord. (1972). Safety and health at work report of the committee. HMSO. London. [Pg.105]


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