Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-10-22-Speech-2-276"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:A new Community health and safety at work strategy 2002-20062
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021022.10.2-276"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-22-Speech-2-2772
lpv:speaker	lp:John Purvis2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, of course we all want health and safety at work, employers, workers and shareholders. What good is it if we have health and safety but no work? There is the problem and there is the challenge. There is an honourable tradition in the long campaign and struggle to achieve acceptable standards of health and safety in the workplace. This started way back with the industrial revolution. It freed children from hard manual labour in the mines and the mills, and to this day it protects workers against avoidable accidents and illnesses. And it is not over yet. Still there are unacceptable accidents on the farm and on the factory floor. Only last month on a farm next door to mine in Scotland, the young husband and father of a family died after being caught in a potato-harvesting machine. We must do all we can and continue to strive to eliminate all such tragedies. Our work and business culture must be a safety culture, but life and work can never be devoid of risk. There is no way we could achieve that utopia and still have a working economy, where men and women leave home each day for their workplace and thereby support their families and our economy. Be in no doubt that absurdly exaggerated restrictions and red tape will only kill off enterprise and the enterprises to which our constituents resort each day to make their living and provide the prosperity on which we all depend. The Commission has it very nearly right. Apply effectively the legislation we already have and encourage health and safety actions as good for business as well as for workers. Mr Hughes' report goes far too far. Its litany of exaggerated good intentions and its demand for yet more legislation risk the future of Europe's businesses, of our prosperity and our jobs."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; ECON (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-03-13--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries and the Gulf (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Purvis (PPE-DE )."1

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