This man knows all about cancer
Why won’t HSE treat cancer with deadly seriousness? Simon Pickvance knows numbers are important. Numbers – statistics, victims – establish priorities. Which is why he’s baffled by the Health and Safety Executive’s approach to occupational cancer. There’s a pervasive lack of willingness to believe things are dangerous – it’s a cultural problem about HSE,” Pickvance says.
Hazards 117 January-March 2012
Mad men
'Monster' raving Cameron sees red tape; vows 'to kill off safety' With the economy going down the pan, the prime minister has found his whipping boy. David Cameron is ‘waging war’ and has vowed to ‘kill off’ the workplace ‘health and safety monster’. Hazards reveals for the government this insanely dangerous talk isn’t about work, it’s about business.
Hazards 117 January-March 2012
Safety in the dock
Spate of dock work deaths exposes official 'low risk' folly Dock work has been declared low risk. Preventive Health and Safety Executive inspections have been stopped. The docks regulations are up for the chop. Hazards asks if the docks are so safe, how come the death rate last year was several times the national average?
Hazards 117 January-March 2012
A kind of justice
Why justice may be hard won after brutal deaths at work A crushed head, burned alive, consumed in a workplace explosion. However horrific and preventable, the fight for justice after a death at work is likely to long and arduous – and frequently a series of cruel disappointments, bereaved families more often than not discover.
Hazards 117 January-March 2012
Banana Link
Unions here can help banana workers everywhere secure safe work The beautifully presented fruit on your local grocer’s shelves has been treated with loving care. It’s a pity the overworked, pesticide-drenched and impoverished workers in the banana fields are not treated with the same respect.
Hazards 117 January-March 2012
International Workers' Memorial Day 2012 poster
Remember the dead fight for the living International Worker's Memorial Day 2012. Because worldwide work kills more than war each year.
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The decimation of Britain's industrial base was supposed to have one obvious upside - an end to dirty and deadly jobs.
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