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Workers Memorial Day 2020
On a day when huge numbers of people round the country remembered health workers who had died of Covid-19, in Birmingham, we remembered them, specifically in the West Midlands.
TUC Health & Safety Bulletin
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Curated Health and Safety articles and stories.
Lol Irwin, 1929-2016
A lifelong campaigner for health and safety and an inspiration to all who knew him.
The TUC Workplace Manual 2016
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.
Small claims changes – another attack on workers’ 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.
New kitchen fashion is killing hundreds
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?
Cancer all-clear for night work was based on ‘bad science’
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.
Occupational hygiene explained
A TUC and the British Occupational Hygiene Society guide for union health and safety representatives.