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To: Snowshoe who wrote (73813)	6/15/2010 6:33:18 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 74559

The UK's safety laws were just fine in 1980, there has been no need to change them since then. Margaret Thatcher ruined them by destroying the safety inspectorate. What is needed are a few rules that are actually enforced. There has been a ton of accidents that just plainly never needed to occur. Piper Alpha was one, and recently BP in the GOM was another. Loads of others. If the rules and laws are flouted, having huge number of investigations and new laws put on the books does not change a thing. "New Labour" helped destroy our otherwise world class UK safety law, and now the conservatives are in a position to either improve things or make them worse again. The acid test will be the number of industrial accidents occurring from here on out. I hope Cameron and co do a good job on it. I think it's easy to improve on the record over the last 30 years. I am also interested how the USA finally react to the BP GOM incident. Any idiots can pass a slew of laws and regulations, have investigations, fine people, and throw them in prison. Improving safety in practice requires skill and judgement.

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