Bakers And Asthma

EDM number 632 in 2010-12, proposed by John McDonnell on 26/07/2010.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Industrial health and safety and Service industries.

That this House notes with concern that bakers are about 80 times more likely to develop occupational asthma than the average worker due to exposure to flour and other bakery dusts; believes that every worker has the right to work in a healthy and safe workplace and is extremely alarmed that thousands of bakers could be at risk of developing an incapacitating respiratory condition; urges employers to work with health and safety trades union representatives and the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union to implement appropriate control measures to protect bakers from developing asthma; and further urges the Government to ensure that the Health and Safety Executive has sufficient resources to take the necessary action to prevent work-related illnesses such as bakers' asthma.

This motion has been signed by a total of 43 MPs, 2 of these signatures have been withdrawn.