...we are seeing an increase in regulators looking at the back to work and risk process (OH) recently...most when pushed are citing 'general duty of care' when looking at control measures...however most have no clue what to expect...mainly focused on face masks...but severly questioning social distancing..as with the gov it sems to be a bit of a s**t show...

If the sanctions are in response to specific legislation, then understandable, although whether these can be classed as mainstream h&s laws is debatable. I think courts will be very reluctant to extend the duty of care for other things that could be considered everyday risks, as the floodgates would well and truly be opened.

Quite so. If were are expecting the HSE to play an effective part in enforcing these regulations, then they will need the resources to do so, similarly for the police. This would reverse the trend of cutting back services that has been a feature for many years. Will a Tory government with their ideology actually do this? It is also worth bearing in mind the amount of expenditure by the government that has been necessary in the last three months, and the need to claw at least some of this back, so there is unlikely to be an appetite for increasing resources. A law that cannot be effectively enforced might as well not be on the statute book.

John, could well be how some in Government would like to go.

Some are wistful about the "good old days" of the Empire. You only to have to look at one MP so distraught about the toppling of a slaver, wanting his statue to be relocated from Bristol to Kent, where he could be erected to watch over the Channel and deter would be asylum seekers who just happen to mostly be of the "wrong" colour.

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