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Dbq Health And Social Care

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Before the appointment of the lady inspectors, health and safety regulations were slowly being implemented across the United Kingdom. Technological advancements brought forth by industrialisation throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries meant that the workplace was changing, and as such new challenges for workers were created. In the new working environments, dangerous and unhealthy conditions were rife. Accidents were extremely common in the new working environments and for example, in Manchester Infirmary in 1832, one quarter of all in-patients admitted came from factory related accidents. Long working hours led to exhaustion, and frequently led to injury or death as important jobs, such as the opening of ventilation flats in the

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