HC Deb 08 November 1971 vol 825 c90W
Mr. Golding

asked the Secretary of State for Employment what steps he intends to take to reduce health hazards in industry.

Mr. Dudley Smith

Her Majesty's inspectors of factories and my Department's medical advisers are already doing a great deal to reduce health hazards in industry. Full details are given in the 1970 Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Factories, and I am sending a copy to the hon. Member. A Bill to set up a new Employment Medical Advisory Service received its first Reading on Wednesday, 3rd November. Any general change in the wider field of occupational health and safety must await the report of the Committee on Safety and Health at Work, now sitting under the chairmanship of Lord Robens.