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HSE: Food manufacturing sector health and safety ‘needs to improve’

Companies and people working in food manufacturing are being told they must pay closer attention to how they manage workplace health risks or face serious penalties. Read More

Forty years of the union safety representative

For forty years union health and safety reps have been working to make our workplaces safer. Lauren Applebey reports. Read More

Today is “Work Your Proper Hours Day”, will you?

Today is the TUC’s 13th annual Work Your Proper Hours Day. Prior to this day, the average person doing unpaid Read More

Companies urged to learn from burns incident

A North East engineering company has been sentenced for safety breaches after two of its workers were burned when they Read More

Lessons from Sports Direct: Walk a mile in their shoes

By Nick Bell A few months ago I met up with a union health and safety lead. I wanted to Read More

Is the 9-5 desk job killing you?

A major Lancet study, which looked at one million adults has found that sitting for at least eight hours a Read More

Sports Direct treats workers “as commodities rather than human beings”

A report by the Business, Innovation and Skills committee has accused Sports Direct, one of Europe’s biggest retailers, of not Read More

‘Blacklisting’ victory sees £10M pay-out

The biggest ‘blacklisting’ scandal in UK construction industry history has seen the court case end in victory for 256 workers, now Read More



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