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1. IBM Elsevier Science and Academic freedom Author : Bailar,Cicolla,Harrison, Ladou, Levy,Rohm,Teitelbaum,Wang, Watterson and Yoshida
Elsevier Science refused to publish an occupational health study of IBM workers that IBM sought to keep from public view. The paper discusses the OHSE issues and the implications of such actions for academic freedom and dissemination of research affe...
Sunday, 07 October 2007 | Read more...

2. Burying the evidence - the UK work cancer epidemic Author : Rory O'Neill and Andrew Watterson
Work-related cancers will claim thousands of lives each year for a further working generation as a result of the “shocking complacency” of the government’s health and safety watchdog, a new report is warning. ‘Burying the evid...
Friday, 13 July 2007 | Read more...

3. Economic costs of asbestos related disease treatment Author : andrew watterson
This looks at economic costs to the UK's NHS of treatment of asbestos related diseases and sets the issue in the context of social and environmental justice.
Wednesday, 20 June 2007 | Read more...

4. Health & Safety - Rebuilding Workplace Organisation Author : Martin Wicks
As the latest TUC H&S survey shows, we do not have the strength to take advantage of our legal rights in many workplaces. Whilst we must demand the application of existing law, and seek to improve it, the trades unions need to seriously dis...
Wednesday, 13 December 2006 | Read more...

5. Has safety had its chips? * Worst ever protection at work Author : Rory ONeill
Has safety had its chips? * Worst ever protection at work HSE is broke The official safety watchdog is broke, can’t do its job and is haemorrhaging staff. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill predicts over-stretched and under-protected...
Tuesday, 05 December 2006 | Read more...

6. Not dead yet - no safe reason to discriminate Author : Rory ONeill
Not dead yet - no safe reason to discriminate We all have different strengths and weakness, young and old. And properly designed work should be safe and healthy whoever is doing it. So why are older workers told they are no longer up to the j...
Tuesday, 05 December 2006 | Read more...

7. Too young to die Author : Rory ONeill
Too young to die In Britain, a worker aged between 16 and 24 years old suffers a reported workplace injury requiring more than 3 days off work every 12 minutes of every working day. A young worker is seriously injured at work every 40 minute...
Friday, 11 August 2006 | Read more...

8. HSE enforcement crisis: Hundreds of jobs to go Author : Rory ONeill
Come clean Health and Safety Executive (HSE) chief executive Geoffrey Podger and his Health and Safety Commission (HSC) sidekick Bill Callaghan say the enforcement-lite safety watchdog is performing well. But Hazards editor Rory O’Neill says...
Friday, 11 August 2006 | Read more...

9. Families Against Corporate Killers Author : Rory ONeill
Families against corporate killers (fack) launched Hundreds of people are killed by work every year in incidents the Health and Safety Executive say should have been prevented. Relatives of people killed at work have launched a national camp...
Tuesday, 01 August 2006 | Read more...

10. ILO to promote global asbestos ban Author : Rory ONeill
The International Labour Office (ILO) is to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world’s biggest ever industrial killer. The landmark decision came with the adoption of a resolution on 14 June 2006 at the ILO conference in Geneva and followed a...
Tuesday, 20 June 2006 | Read more...

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