BAKERS' ASTHMA

EDM number 1610 in 2008-09, proposed by John McDonnell on 08/06/2009.
Categorised under the topic of Industrial health and safety.

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 consider reducing the maximum exposure limit to flour and 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 58 MPs.