The silent tragedy of silica dust and the need for immediate action
One thousand deaths a year among workers deserves a lot more attention
One thousand deaths a year among workers deserves a lot more attention
Plus: Why unions can’t rely on the courts.
Hundreds of thousands of UK workers every year are injured, killed or fall ill as a result of working practices, statistics show.
A new appointment to the Health and Safety Executive highlights a disturbing trend
‘We would be foolhardy to risk losing this significant success for workers
Bud Hudspith argues that the government is understating the damage caused by bad health and safety, and that cutting the regulations will only hurt more.
Alex Hern details the ridiculous arguments used against Occupy London by people on the right seeking to discredit them.
Ben Mitchell looks at the madness of the tabloid and Tory-led government overreaction to the slew of irrational “health and safety gone mad” headlines.
Steve Tombs, Professor of Sociology at Liverpool John Moores University, and David Whyte, Reader in Sociology at the University of Liverpool, on the false justifications for Cameron’s Health and Safety cuts.
Every year, some 1,500 people lose their lives in the UK through a fatal occupational injury – not to mention the 20,000-plus who die of occupational illness.