The TUC has called on employers to make urgent improvements to health and safety at work.
The TUC has called on employers to make urgent improvements to health and safety at work.
The union body also wants safety representatives to be given more powers, and urged regular inspections of workplaces.
At the same time it launched an attack on the Government, saying that several measures introduced by ministers, such as cutting the Health and Safety Executive funding and reducing the number of health and safety inspections, could lead to more accidents at work in the future.
The warning comes ahead of a union protest outside the Qatar Embassy in London, which aims to highlight the conditions faced by workers in Qatar on projects connected to the 2022 football world cup.
TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the UK did not have a record to be proud of, as the country was currently ranked in just 20th place in an index assessing the health and safety risk of 34 developed nations.
Ms O'Grady added that it was only the bad employers who see health and safety regulations as a burden, while those who are happy to collaborate with unions on health and safety issues do not.
Cutting corners when it comes to health and safety, she said, represents a real risk to the UK's workplace safety culture and could have "disastrous" consequences for workers.
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