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| Region Served |
Greater Manchester and North West (depending on current funding)
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| Description |
Free advice in Greater Manchester and North West (dependent on current funding) aimed at helping workers, T.U.safety reps, community groups and others to deal with health and safety problems at work and hazards in the community. Produce thrice yearly newsletter, Hazardous Times, fact sheets and packs on a range of hazards, affiliations.
Run three support groups:
- MARSAG- Manchester Area RSI Support & Action Group provides information and advice on staying in work, benefits and compensation fact pack, exhibition and individual help with cases - pus support of fellow sufferers via evening meeting on first Tuesday on every month.
- GMAVSG - Greater Manchester Asbestos Victims Support Group provides advice on benefits and compensation and lobbies for asbestos victims let down by manufacturers and insurance companies. Exhibition and booklet.
- BbW - Bereaved by Work provides support to families of those killed at or by work activities thorough the inquest, criminal and civil legal processes.
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| Publications |
Hazardous Times 3 times a year.
Fact Sheets on:
- Range of chemicals especially solvents
- Chemicals at Work
- Children at Work
- Consultation with Employees on Health & Safety at Work (Non-union workplaces)
- Health and Safety for New and Expectant Mothers
- Manual Handling at Work
- Material Safety Data Sheets
- Organic Solvents and Chronic Toxic Encephalopathy
- Revitalising Health and Safety
- RIDDOR: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations
- Strain Injuries: Time to Stop the Pain
- Stress at Work
- VDUs: Preventing Ill-Health
- Young Workers Aged between 16 and 18
- Fact Pack on RSI £5.00
- - Information & contact list
- - Fact Sheet 1 RSI?WRULDS -What are they?
- - Fact Sheet 2 Treatment for RSI/WRULDs
- - Fact Sheet 3 Benefits for RSI Sufferers
- - Fact Sheet 4 Compensation through the courts
- - Fact Sheet 5 Preventing RSUI/WRULDs
- 'If you have a Asbestos Disease' 40 page booklet
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| Website |
www.gmhazards.org.uk
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| Email |
mail@gmhazards.org.uk
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0161 636 7557
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0161 936 7556
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| Address |
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, Windrush Millennium Centre, 70
Alexandra Road, Manchester, M16 7WD
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