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Mr Sharma told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: ‘There is a legal duty requirement for businesses to keep their workers safe, for those who interact in those businesses to keep them safe.
‘If people are ignoring the rules and they are not keeping a workplace safe, then there are clearly measures that can be followed and it is possible for there to be enforcement notices, there are going to be checks that are carried out, spot checks by the health and safety executive, which they are already doing.
‘And in the case where someone is not following an enforcement order and not fixing things in a workplace, then, for the most serious offences, people can go to prison for up to two years. These are real powers and real teeth that are in place.’The minister added concerned employees should get in touch with their local health and safety executive and local authority to get advice on what to do.
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