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After the success of the first edition in early 2012, the TUC has revised this popular manual to include recent legal changes in employment law and employee rights.
The Government are planning to change the rules for compensation claims that would make it much more difficult for workers to get the money they are entitled to when their employer’s negligence injures them or makes them ill.
Stone worktops in kitchens are becoming very fashionable in Britain, yet how many people know that they are killing the workers who make or install them?
An Oxford University study that concluded the classification of night work as a cause of breast cancer in women is no longer justified was based on ‘bad science’, top researchers have warned.
A TUC and the British Occupational Hygiene Society guide for union health and safety representatives.
Hugh Robertson Senior Policy Officer from the TUC has produced a short summary of some of the issues arising from the green paper.
Breast Cancer Awareness Month has provided a welcome focus on a condition that has risen sharply over the last 40 years, but campaigners are concerned the UK government and breast cancer charities are resolutely ignoring the host of preventable occupational and environmental causes of the condition.
European Health and Safety Week takes place in October each year and is designed to raise awareness of health and safety.