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Last gasp
Will HSE finally act to prevent Britain's breathtaking silica tragedy?Wassam is dead at 28. Marek, confined to a hospital bed, knows he is destined to follow soon. A coroner has demanded that the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) responds to a silica crisis killing UK workers faster and younger. Hazards questions when HSE will act to end the silica dust exposures that are turning lungs to stone.
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Growing pains
Labour should abandon Britain’s red tape obsessionRemoving Conservative anti-union laws, extending employment rights. It was a good start from Keir Starmer and the new Labour government. But Hazards warns that the prime minister’s promises to do away with red tape in the pursuit of growth could dangerously undermine workers’ rights and safety.
Hazards number 167, 2024

Taking the biscuit
Dave Smith’s guide to organising | No.26 | Acting collectively and winning When management won’t budge, the most effective way to achieve improvements in workplace health and safety is for workers to act collectively rather than relying on one or two vocal individuals.  
Hazards number 167, 2024

Stop it!
Sexual harassment law offers protection but falls short on enforcementA new law gives women protection from harassment at work. It places for the first time a proactive duty on employers to prevent abuse. But Hazards warns the responsible regulator, EHRC, can’t undertake preventive inspections and HSE has stepped back, and now says it will do absolutely nothing to help the women at risk.
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The asbestos pushers
Asbestos manufacturers sue Indonesia’s ban campaigners The decision was clear. The Indonesia Supreme Court gave its backing to campaigners who had argued deadly asbestos cement products must come with a warning label. But instead of accepting the decision, the asbestos industry decided on a different tack – suing the groups who brought the case for £400,000 a month for lost income.
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Hazards poster: Growing pains
It is your choice Sir Keir. Red tape or more bloody bandages?Regulation doesn't hurt responsible businesses. But it does protect workers.
A Hazards pin-up-at-work poster

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Deadly Business
A Hazards special investigation

The decimation of Britain's industrial base was supposed to have one obvious upside - an end to dirty and deadly jobs.

In the 'Deadly business' series, Hazards reveals how a hands off approach to safety regulation means workers continue to die in preventable 'accidents' at work.

Meanwhile, an absence of oversight means old industrial diseases are still affecting millions, and modern jobs are creating a bloodless epidemic of workplace diseases - from 'popcorn lung' to work related suicide.  Find out more