Novel coronavirus Covid-19, photo NIAID/CC

Novel coronavirus Covid-19, photo NIAID/CC   (Click to enlarge: opens in new window)

You can’t believe a word that Johnson says is true. In his drive to end lockdown, the prime minister has reassuringly told anxious workers that construction sites, manufacturing workplaces and food outlets will all be “Covid-compliant.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be enforcing that, and we will have spot inspections to make sure that businesses are keeping their employees safe.”

However, according to the HSE, it has “paused all proactive inspections at this time to reduce any risk posed to our own staff and the public.” So there you have it! Companies will not be checked, but instead will ‘self-police’.