Workplace safety row risks lives - ACTU

ACTU president Ged Kearney has accused business of risking workers' lives by opposing plans for new occupational health and safety regulations. Some of the nation's biggest companies have warned that the proposed workplace safety regime could lead to higher costs and give excessive powers to workers.

Julia Gillard has promised the laws would boost productivity and slash business costs. Business claim the rules could tie them up in red tape by forcing companies to divert resources away from frontline health and safety issues and towards paperwork.

But unions chief Ms Kearney said today that employers were running a scare campaign that ignored evidence that the changes would not make life harder for business.

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