Work rules
The high cost of neutering watchdogs Whether it is hazards in your workplace, horsemeat in your beefburger or Legionnaires’ in your neighbourhood, it is becoming evident that stringent regulation is not a burden, it is a necessity. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill looks at the costly consequences of rubbing out the rules.
Hazards special online report, March 2013
Manifesto!
What do we want? TUC’s health and safety starter for 10 A new 10-point safety manifesto from the TUC spells out how to turn around the UK’s poor health and safety record and prevent thousands of work-related deaths each year. TUC’s Hugh Robertson says it is time to end a national tragedy that is also a huge drain on the economy.
Hazards 121, January-March 2013
Public peril
HSE’s risk menu only gives a taster of the true death toll The Health and Safety Executive is downplaying dramatically the deadly harm caused by work, believes Roger Bibbings. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) expert says this undermines the safety watchdog’s rationale for exempting most workplaces from preventive inspections.
Hazards 121, January-March 2013
Well, then?
Healthier workplaces deliver healthier workers Employers who create healthy workplaces can benefit from reduced employee absence and increased productivity, according to a TUC well-being guide. But Hazards editor Rory O’Neill says the new union blueprint differs from that of lifestyle evangelists, advising that the best way to improve well-being is to make the whole job healthier.
Hazards 121, January-March 2013
Blacklist
Why it would be madness to believe blacklisting is history Thousands of workers on a construction blacklist lost their livelihoods as a result. A Hazards photofile features the stunning Blacklist Support Group campaign that exposed collusion between employers and the police and inaction by the government.
Hazards 121, January-March 2013
We thought...
regulation was so last year, but then people just kept on dying.It shouldn't take a disaster before they act. A Hazards 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
