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Hazards Campaign news archive


Business Daleks say: Deregulate! Deregulate! Deregulate! Hazards Campaign says: “Regulate, Regulate, Regulate! - 17 October 2013 more

FACK Says: ‘Don’t be fooled by government lies on health and safety’ - 7 June 2013 more

Cutting health and safety laws is hurting us all, so "Stop it: You’re Killing us!" - 26 April 2013 more

MPs urged to reject removal of civil liability in health and safety law in the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act in Common today - 16 April 2013 more

Tackling occupational cancer should mean preventing it, not taking a ‘3 monkeys’ approach - 13 March 2013 more

Hazards Campaign statement on the Government response to ‘Health at work- an independent review of sickness absence’ - 23 January 2013 more

Safety police cuts will make more unhealthy and unsafe - despite denial for HSE chief exec - 5 October 2012 more

HSE’s dithering, denial and delay on workplace cancer is deadly! - 2 August 2012 more

“Clegg - stop talking such utter cobblers!" - 25 October 2011 more

Hazards Campaign comment on employment minister Chris Grayling's Butlins bumper car letter - 24 August 2011 more

Hazards Campaign comment on PM Cameron’s linking the riots and looting to health and safety legislation - 16 August 2011 more

Hazards Campaign response to the Lofstedt review - 9 August 2011 more

Hazards conference 2011 - HSE cuts mean we need better organisation
2-4 September, University of Keele booking formsponsorship form

On Workers Memorial Day the Hazards Campaign says: "Oi, Grayling! We aren't going to let you send us back to the dark ages!", 28 April 2011 more

More cuts in health and safety are the real Job Killers, 21 March 2011 more

Health and safety week of action, 28 February - 5 March 2011 pdf

Hazards Campaign statement following the sentencing of Cotswold Geotechnical Services in the first ever corporate manslaughter trial, 17 February 2011 more

Lord Young’s biased report should be binned, 15 October 2010 more

We didn't vote to die at work! The government's attack on health and safety will kill - not save lives!, 8 September 2010 more

Call for action following another Corus death, 1 September 2010 more

Hazards Campaign fringe meeting at TUC Congress, 14 September 2010 more

Miniscule fines and no jail for those guilty Buncefield explosion, 19 July 2010 more

No-one should die simply for going to work but HSE figures are not the whole story, 30 June 2010 more

The Hazards Campaign says: “Vote to save your life at work” 27 April 2010 more

When will senior directors of companies such as Biffa be held personally accountable for their serial killing and injuring workers? 20 April 2010 more

When will senior directors of companies such as Corus be held personally accountable for their serial killing and injuring workers? 14 April 2010 more

Hazards Campaign comment on the election manifestos, 14 April 2010 more

Why are we waiting ? Campaign groups calls on government to stop talking and ACT to stop deaths in the construction industry ! 1 October 2009 more

- Hazards Campaign welcomes reduction in workplaces deaths but calls for action on the true extent of deaths, disability and injury - 25 June 2009 more

- Hazards Campaign says HSE’s ‘Be part of the solution’ is a damp squib
and the state of H&S at work is much worse then they think! - 3 June 2009
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- Photographic exhibition - An asbestos timebomb in the Indian Subcontinent - 1 December 2008 more

- Hazards Campaign says HSE statistics drastically misrepresent cost of work - 28 October 2008 more

- Hazards Campaign rejects BERR Report - 9 August 2008 more

- Government should stop beating sick workers back to crap work and make all work good for us 24 July 2008 more

- Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group slam Government on crane register 2 July 2008 more

- Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group outraged by new crane collapse 12 December 2007 more

- Battersea Crane Disaster Action Group wish the HSE a Merry Christmas and “more resources please” for the New Year 12 December 2007 more

- Mesothelioma Day 27 February 2006 A listing of nationwide activities for Mesothelioma Day more

- Join the Hazards Campaign Protest at HSC 14 February 2007 more

- Greater Manchester Hazards Campaign's Response to the Daily Telegraph's call to close down the Health and Safety Executive 10 February 2006 more

- Scottish Hazards Condemns Corporate Homicide Spin Scottish Hazards today condemned the Institute of Directors claims that the best directors and companies will leave the country if tougher safety laws are introduced as irresponsible and based on falsehood. 23 January 2006 more

- Accident book fiasco Even after essential changes were made the new accident book is still giving cause for concern more

- A job to die for? Public meeting Monday 23 January 2006 Liverpool is like a big building site, with high profits on contracts worth millions of pounds for construction companies. Safety is of low priority. Many of the jobs are going to casual contractors whose workers who are easier to hire and fire. Do we want a City of Culture or a City of Carnage? Meeting at the Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool, Monday 23, January 2006, 7.00pm. PDF poster

- Clydebank Asbestos Group contribution to HSE asbestos consultation document which registers strong objections to the proposed relaxation in the laws protecting the public from asbestos announced by the Government. 19 January 2006 more

- A participants report on the Conference “Health & Safety: Revitalised or Reversed?” held 18th January 2006 at NATFHE Centre. more

- DEMONSTRATION 17 January 2006 Don’t allow the Government to downgrade your protection from deadly asbestos! Protest outside Health and Safety Commission meeting. Details Earlier news release

- ‘A job to die for?’ Meeting protest challenges official work deaths complacency Tuesday 8th November 2005 more

- Delegates at the annual Hazards Campaign conference call for an end to the Government's dangerous deregulation fetish more - conference report

- Hazards Campaign / TUC guide to impending regulations on asbestos in buildings Asbestos no hiding place

The Hazards Campaign, c/o Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, Windrush Millennium Centre, 70 Alexandra Road,
Manchester, M16 7WD . website www.hazardscampaign.org.uk