ABSTRACT
Employees have long been exploited within the workplace in relation to low pay, long hours and unsafe conditions. In Britain a large number of deaths and injury within the workplace result from the failure to comply with safety regulations. Reports carried out by the Health and Safety Executive in the 1980s indicated that in at least two-thirds of fatal accidents, managers had violated the Health and Safety at Work Act (Tombs 1990). Workers not only are affected by safety regulations but can die as a result of diseases contracted at work, most notably from asbestos poisoning (mesothelioma) but also from lung disease and occupationally related cancers.
