Hazards 124, October-December 2013
FEATURES
LAB RATS Many scientific hired guns try to hide their industry ties; others flaunt them. Either way it is frequently only hazardous products that can expect a clean bill of health. more
DESTROY SAFETY! The business lobby’s robotic call for safety deregulation has left them sounding like ‘demented Daleks’, say campaigners. But the government will obey; it’s part of David Cameron’s grand plan, after all. more
WATCHDOGMA When the Health and Safety Executive said it wanted to help firms “reduce the risk of over compliance” with regulations, it wasn’t an isolated moment of madness. HSE has become a government brainwashed and neutered watchdog that looks less, counts less and increasingly couldn’t care less. more
CENTREPAGES
ACT UP! The firms denied it, the government ignored it and the privacy watchdog refused to alert unwitting victims. But in a stunning national blacklisting campaign, unions and campaigners have forced them all to think again. Will blacklisted workers soon win the answers and justice they deserve? more
PHOTOFILE
GOLD STANDARD Children as young as eight years old are working in Tanzania’s small-scale gold mines, facing grave risks to the health and their lives. more
POSTER
WATCHDOGMA When the official safety watchdog hands in its teeth, you know you are not witnessing a rational policy shift. more
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News in brief, 8-17. Unions and campaigns, 24-31. International news, 32-34
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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
