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Health and Safety Executive Petition

Sign the PCS petition to make HSE management ‘think again’.

Members in HSE are campaigning to urge their management to ‘think again’ about the decision to close their London headquarters and move 320 jobs to Bootle.

A parliamentary select committee report recently echoed PCS concerns that the move will lead to a significant loss of experienced staff.

Management’s original business case worked on the assumption that 40% of staff would be willing or able to make the move to the North-West. In fact less than 4% have so far expressed a firm interest in relocating.

These moves follow a 25% reduction of staff in post across HSE since 2002. PCS are arguing that a smaller, less efficient HSE will be to the detriment of all workers’ health and safety.

To make matters worse for members they have been threatened by HSE’s Chief Executive with disciplinary action if they fail to actively look for work elsewhere.

Please support the campaign to make HSE ‘think again’ by signing the petition.

Download the petition here and ask your colleagues to sign it.

Return completed petitions to Mick Daniels, Room 7233, Norcross and we will forward them to PCS HQ.