On 10/11/2016 11:06, Roland Perry wrote:


Yes, but a great deal of today's consumer/employee protection has been
added on top of that rather low base by the EU.



The majority of EU based H&S law (i.e. employee protection) is based on
the Health & Safety at Work etc Act 1974 which was far in advance of any
european based law. Going back to UK law would be unlikely to reduce the
H&S laws.

In fact it may even be an improvement as the EU has diluted the 1974
Act's basis of the employer has to provide a safe place of work but does
not specify how - the legal onus is on the employer to prove that what
he has done is reasonable (ALARP). The EU has, to an extent, moved
backwards towards the old prescriptive regime (such as the Factory Acts)
that existed prior to 1974 and which resulted in many disasters, Aberfan
being one of them.

Colin