My grandfather was ‘Mr Health and Safety’. His life’s quest to make work safer has been ridiculed – but the rise of the gig economy shows it’s no joke
- Written by Simon Harold Walker, Senior Research Associate (Public Health), School of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow
Harold Walker was a Labour MP for 33 years and a key architect of the Health and Safety at Work Act (1974).David Fowler/Shutterstock“I hope we have persuaded [the minister] of the need to do more, not merely to reduce industrial noise but to help people who have suffered industrial deafness. I confess to having some direct and personal...
