Hazards says it with flowers
We didn't vote to die at work UK prime minister David Cameron told a business audience on 5 January 2012 that health and safety protections at work are a "monster" he will "kill off". Hazards sends him a graphic response.
‘Sod You’ poster • We didn't vote to die at work campaign
Overkill
It is your neck on the block • Clegg and Cameron’s war on workers Government ministers from the prime minister to the safety minister are queuing up to say safety is bad for business. But LibDem leader and deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has trumped them all, assuring businesses he’ll make sure safety inspectors are not “breathing down your necks.”
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Safety in the pits
Will Britain’s coal mines soon be more deadly than China’s? When five miners died this autumn in two separate incidents in 12 days, conditions in Britain’s coal mines briefly caught the public gaze. But Hazards says the media failed to spot the lack of safety oversight underground that has seen fatality rates in UK coal mines at their highest levels in 50 years.
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Dust up!
If you want to breathe easy at work, be a nuisance on dust Tens of thousands of people in the UK die every year as a result of dust exposures at work. It’s all preventable, unions say. And they are sick of our official workplace health guardians saying it’s just a bit of a ‘nuisance’.
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Deadly catch
Deadly catch Worldwide, fishing is the most dangerous job you can do. But it is not just the ravages of nature that take the blame. The industry is blighted by illegal and unregulated operators. Now two global union federations are taking on an industrial giant that claims over 20,000 lives year.
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Where’s that watchdog?
HSE says talk to the machine – we say ‘no thanks’ Not only is the cash-starved, hands-tied Health and Safety Executive (HSE) disappearing, it is increasingly disappearing from view. It has blitzed contact telephone numbers and email addresses from the HSE website. And most injury reporting and official safety advice has now been consigned to the web too.
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TUC calls for action
Day of action on health and safety • 28 April 2012 Workplace health and safety has become the government’s favourite whipping boy. Safety rights and enforcement are being dismantled. TUC head of safety Hugh Robertson says unions and safety campaigners must expose, discredit and take action to undermine these deadly developments.
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