Employers must foot more of the liability insurance bill

Workplace injury and illness costs the UK economy £18bn a year, yet the average British boss pays just £70 per employee in insurance to cover the annual cost of compensating staff injured at work, a TUC report has revealed.

The union body has urged employers to foot more of the cost of poor workplace health and safety in a report called Radical Solutions Are All We Can Afford, its submission to a government review of employer liability insurance.