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The Hazards Campaign’s blueprint to make work safe againOn 3 July 2024, the last day of the Conservative government, new official figures revealed workplace deaths have increased again. Work-related ill-health has plateaued at an all-time high. Here, Janet Newsham of the national Hazards Campaign spells out what Labour must do now to make work safer and healthier.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Labour wins
As Keir Starmer becomes PM, TUC calls for better protectionThe Conservative government saw safety rules as a burden and trade unions as a threat. TUC head of safety Shelly Asquith says the union body is looking forward to new rights and more respect under Labour after its landslide election win, but says the best protection you have will always be your union.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Safety committed
Making sure committees are effective There is a piece of jargon that corporate safety professionals use that always makes trade union safety expert Dave Smith wince – ‘employee voice’. He says to secure real improvements, unions need active safety reps and safety committees that make sure it is the collective union safety message that is heard.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Deadly oversight
The corporate manslaughter law failed by design Safety activist Mick Holder was instrumental in the campaign that won a corporate homicide act. But here he examines the built-in fatal flaws in the law that meant justice was never really delivered.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Crisis point
Climate change creates a ‘cocktail’ of serious work hazards The climate crisis is an occupational safety and health crisis, a new report from the International Labour Organisation has warned. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill looks at the UN agency’s shocking new evidence.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Caught it?
First the cows got bird flu, then dairy workersIf Covid taught us anything, it was that zoonoses – diseases in animals that cross over to humans – can have catastrophic consequences. So why has the discovery of bird flu in dairy workers not led to the necessary urgent action, asks Hazards editor Rory O’Neill – warning this could be a mistake of pandemic proportions.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Biohazards rule
Global law on biological hazards at work edges closer When the Covid-19 pandemic hit, there was not a single global rule in place to protect the workers whose health and jobs were early casualties. But, reports Hazards editor Rory O’Neill, that’s set to change, as negotiations to introduce a groundbreaking international regulation on biological hazards have now reached the half-way point.
Hazards 166, Summer 2024

Hazards poster: Work safety is your right
Unions make rights a realityWork safety is your right, But it isn't a given.
A Hazards pin-up-at-work 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