International health and safety standards after Brexit

Abstract

This is neither speculation nor scaremongering. Asbestos deaths are at an alltime high,1 silicosis ruins or ends thousands of lives each year2 and occupational asthma afflicts unchecked new generations of wheezy workers. At the same time work-related stress, anxiety, and depression are at a record high.3 This old and new health-robbing double dose is no accident. UK workers are vulnerable by design, increasingly overloaded and under-protected at work.