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THE annual report of the Chief Inspector of Factories for 1938 gives an encouraging picture of the way in which health and safety in industry in Great Britain are heing improved. Although the report deals only with the first six months during which the Factory Act of 1937 was in force, it indicates that great progress has been made in applying the new code and raising the standard of all factories and workshops to the level of the best. Indeed, a striking feature of the coming into operation of the Act, the report points out, has been the co-operation of employers, whose inquiries have been directed to the best manner of doing this or that, rather than to the necessity of doing it. Accordingly, the factory inspector is now regarded more as an expert adviser on problems of health and safety and less as an official with punitive powers.
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Health and Safety in Industry. Nature 144, 486–487 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144486a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/144486a0