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Health and Safety (Offences) Bill

I agree that some directors and employers do need to be brought to book. I do not know about the hon. Gentleman’s experience when he has been out with construction inspectors, as I have, but the breaches that we uncovered were brought about—unknown to management—by employees themselves who wanted to finish their job more quickly. The employees had been given the correct equipment, but they were not using it as they had been told to. It is important to get that point on the record, because I should not want the tenor of the debate to be that all breaches of health and safety are just about evil directors; many employees are themselves responsible for breaches of health and safety.