This video gives a short explainer about why the Hazards Campaign thinks the RIDDOR consultation process is missing an opportunity to protect workers. Hazards Campaign will also run a webinar on 15th April to explain more and how safety activists involved. For webinar Zoom details email: mail@gmhazards.org.uk
Also see: HSE’s RIDDOR Consultation – A system failing to see modern workplace harm – Hazards Campaign news release, 1 June 2026
On Thursday 15 October 2020 the Hazards Campaign Thursday Talk concentrated on the challenges of Long-Covid from a health, occupational health, legal and trade union organising perspective.
We were joined by speakers:
– Clare Rayner – ex clinician and member of several Long-Covid support groups
– Professor Raymond Agius who until recently was the Director of the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health at the University of Manchester
– Phillip Liptrot – Senior personal injury specialist and a national lead for Thompsons solicitors in the North West
– Paul Holleran – GMB Regional education and health and safety officer for North West and Ireland
The event was organised on the basis that workplaces are a major transmission source and that any workplaces open should be certified as safe. The topic for the event was about the chronic conditions of Covid-19, how it will impact in our workplaces, what employers should be doing to support workers, and what are the implications of defining it as an occupational disease and the legalities involved in ensuring employers support workers properly and how trade unions can tackle the issues.
Please follow the links for presentations by Clare Rayner and Raymond Agius.
You can view a recording of the event here.
For further information relevant to the speakers and subject:
website www.hazardscampaign.org.uk
twitter @hazardscampaign
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If you need more information please email: janet@gmhazards.org.uk
or 07734 317 158
The Hazards Campaign is a UK-wide network of resource centres and campaigners. The Hazards Campaign supports those organising and campaigning for justice and safety at work.
If you would like to get more involved or make a donation to our organisation please email: janet@gmhazards.org.uk
On 11 September 2020 the Hazards Campaign held a Thursday Talk Zoom event titled: “Is two metre physical distancing enough? Aerosol transmission and other emerging issues.”
Speakers were Professor Andrew Watterson – Stirling Unversity, Hilda Palmer – Hazards Campaign and Retired GP Jonathan Fluxman – Doctors in Unite.
The recording of the event can be viewed below:
PDFs of the speakers’ presentations are below:
Control of all routes of the SARS CoV-2 Virus, Hilda Palmer.
Airborne spread of Covid-19 and implications for the workplace, Jonathan Fluxman.
Keep your distance, Andrew Watterson
Associates of Greater Manchester Hazards Centre explain why International Workers’ Memorial Day is important in remembering those killed or injured at work, and those who continue to be vulnerable in the workplace.