Hazards 132, October-December 2015
FEATURES
Doctor? No The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) medical division is nearing extinction and the whole occupational medicine profession could follow suit. Meanwhile the UK's workplace diseases crisis is continuing unchecked. more
Hard to swallow Your firm’s concern for your ‘well-being’, ‘wellness’, ‘resilence’ and ‘mindfulness’ might just be a way to bypass the union on health issues, warns TUC’s Hugh Robertson. more
Asbestos figures Europe is in the midst of an asbestos disease epidemic – and it is far worse than previously thought. more
CENTREPAGES
Hit list If workplace violence isn’t reported, it is unlikely anything will get done. Hazards presents a blow-by-blow union guide to getting it properly recorded and quickly addressed. more
PHOTOFILE
Keeping safe Low-paid hotel housekeepers do some of the heaviest, fast-paced and unhealthy work around. Massimo Frattini of the global union IUF describes its campaign to make hotel giants clean up their act. more
POSTER
Good grief Mark Seward died this year when he was hit by a missile. But he wasn’t a soldier, he was a factory worker, struck by flying metal. His widow Tracey, mum to 4-year-old Daisy, now campaigns for justice for those harmed by their jobs. A pin-up-at-work Hazards poster. more
ELSEWHERE IN HAZARDS
News in brief. 8-17 Unions and campaigns. 22-33 International news. 34-35
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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
