Health And Safety Executive Proposals And The Sikh Community

EDM number 776 in 1992-93, proposed by Jim Marshall on 10/11/1992.

That this House, aware of the increasing concern among the Sikh community at the proposal by the Health and Safety Executive to include Sikhs in the requirement to wear protective headwear at all industrial premises other than construction sites, urges the Goverrnment to have urgent discussions with the other EC member states and the European Commission to ensure that Sikhs have a general exemption from such proposals.

This motion has been signed by a total of 44 MPs.