Watch dodge: HSE butchered, safety laws under attack
A safety minister who is determined to see the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) axed. A government that lops “at least” 35 per cent off HSE’s funding. We are living and working in dangerous times. Hazards warns that if unions, sick and injured workers and bereaved relatives don’t stand up for safety, no-one else will.
Hazards special report, November 2010 • Hazards vote to die campaign
Dangerous li(v)es
Join the We didn’t vote to die at work campaign
The Health and Safety Executive has been hobbled by an unprecedented and savage funding cut. Safety rules are being relaxed. And the government says it’s all happening in the name of common sense. Don’t you believe it, says Hazards – it’s a political project driven by the business lobby and built around dangerous lies.
Hazards special report, November 2010 • We didn't vote to die campaign
Want to know about burdens?
Making work safe and healthy isn’t a burden on business.
Grieving for a dead partner who never got to meet his son. Bringing up two children on your own. Working in a cafe but struggling to put food on the table. They’re burdens. A Hazards poster • We didn't vote to die campaign
Voice lessons
Teacher gets voice loss payouts but will never teach again
When teacher Joyce Walters developed vocal nodules and lost her voice, her bosses shrugged and said it ‘was an occupational hazard for all teachers’. Joyce has now won a six figure settlement, but she’s speaking out because she’d much rather have the use of her voice and the job she loved.
Hazards special report, November 2010 • Hazards voice loss webpages
To Europe and beyond
European Work Hazards Network (EHWN)
The European Work Hazards Network brings together unions, safety campaigners and academics to exchange information and campaign strategies on workplace health and safety. It knows hazards know no borders – and it is now seeking new links with like-minded campaigners worldwide. A Hazards photofile. more
Cancer collusion
How to use spin to make a workplace scandal disappear
The Health and Safety Executive is helping the microelectronics industry bury worrying evidence of occupational cancer excesses. Hazards reports on how the safety watchdog is using spin to make a workplace cancer scandal disappear. more
Lingering death
New hopes the asbestos industry will die soon
A statement from a United Nations body confirming its desire to see the end of asbestos use worldwide could be the death knell for a substance that claims one life every five minutes around the clock. more
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