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Shop potentially putting staff and customers in danger following massive leak. Advice please?

My partners place of work has experienced a massive leak today from all the rain. The water has gotten into electrical sockets, caused the fire alarms to go off and has caused part of the internal ceiling to fall in. The assistant manager sent a group message asking for everyone to bring a spare change of clothes tomorrow to help assist with the clean up. They still intend on opening tomorrow and allowing customers in. One of the staff members have challenged the assistant manager on this saying they aren't comfortable going anywhere near it when there's a chance someone could be hurt – electrocuted, more of the ceiling falling in etc. For reference, the company is massive, they had over over £billion turn over last year, they knew the roof leaked, its been doing it for years. It seems like they intend to potentially put their staff and customers…


My partners place of work has experienced a massive leak today from all the rain.
The water has gotten into electrical sockets, caused the fire alarms to go off and has caused part of the internal ceiling to fall in.

The assistant manager sent a group message asking for everyone to bring a spare change of clothes tomorrow to help assist with the clean up. They still intend on opening tomorrow and allowing customers in.

One of the staff members have challenged the assistant manager on this saying they aren't comfortable going anywhere near it when there's a chance someone could be hurt – electrocuted, more of the ceiling falling in etc.

For reference, the company is massive, they had over over £billion turn over last year, they knew the roof leaked, its been doing it for years.
It seems like they intend to potentially put their staff and customers at risk by opening tomorrow.

What should we do? I'm happy to call environmental health or trading standards or whoever needed to make sure nobody ends up hurt.

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