Hazards 126, April-June 2014
FEATURES
Dust to dust Crystalline silica exposures kill over 1,000 workers a year in in the UK and leaves many more fighting for breath. But, unlike its US counterpart, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) thinks our deadly silica exposure standard is just fine. more
What if…? Imagine you could start from scratch and design a just and effective workplace health and safety regulatory regime. As the Scottish independence referendum looms, Stirling University’s Professor Andy Watterson is doing just that. more
Toxic record The government’s “toxic, corrosive and hazardous” record on health and safety has placed workers at risk and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in jeopardy, the TUC is warning. more
CENTREPAGES
Fracking boom With massive reservoirs of oil and gas trapped in the rocks under our feet, the oil industry is eager to get fracking. But US evidence of chemical related deaths, soaring fatalities and over-exposure to deadly dust has raised seriously unhealthy questions. more
PHOTOFILE
Seen this? There’s no hiding from Workers’ Memorial Day. The annual 28 April event, where safety campaigners pledge to ‘remember the dead and fight like hell for the living’, this year saw activities worldwide, from Argentina to Zimbabwe. more
POSTER
Time machine Introducing David Cameron's coalition-fired time machine. The government has turned back the clock. Time to make a stand. more
ELSEWHERE IN HAZARDS
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
