Thread by @fearnley_k

🚨NHS workers, you have a legal right to work in safe environments.

Section 44 of the Employment Rights Act 1996 states employees are entitled to down tools & stay off work on FULL PAY if their employer refuses to make their work place safe. Demand #FFP3.🧵 @TheBMA

2/ It is wilful negligence to expose healthcare workers to a known deadly airborne pathogen. All public-facing NHS workers must be equipped with #RPE, including #FFP2 #FFP3, given #COVIDisAirborne. @H_S_E

3/ UK government and hospital trusts must now start to invest in #CleanAir. Masks are a short-term solution, the installation of air filtration systems are a long-term investment. @wesstreeting @SteveBarclay

4/ Failure to do so will be a HUGE mistake. This will not be the last variant of concern and this will not be the last pandemic.

5/ A reminder to all trust chief executives. IPC guidance is *not* above the law. It is my understanding legal responsibility to protect staff falls squarely with you. @SecretNHSCEO @SecretNHSCEO @AmandaPritchard @Nickhulme61 @NHSBeeky @RMitchell_NHS @Kevin_McNamara1

@matthewtrainer @annanhills @BarnsHospCEO @PaulRobertsNHS @suztraceynhs @MY_LenRichards @SiobhanMelia @TracyBullock12 @david_loughton @MajorKirsten1 @Deborah62655228 @DeborahBalkwill @Mel_Pickup

@Eugineyafele @CEO_DavidB @MarkAxcellNHS @AngelaHillery @Fiona_Noden @AdamSewellJones @ProfEmer @SafeDavid3 @FreshAirNHS @NHSEngland @DudleyGroupCEO @CMO_England @Thomas_Waite

Patients are currently unable to access safe health care. Never mind legal responsibility, where is your sense of moral responsibility?

Pts have a legal right to be cared for in safe environments. We are not even attempting to make environments safe. It’s a national disgrace.

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