GMB rehabilitation prize. TUC on small firm bad backs. Stress at work. Care workers, shopworkers, maintenance workers, most jobs can require people to be left alone, isolated. Hazards Factsheet No.72 shows how working together can make sure working alone is safe.
Jobs are in jeopardy.
Efforts to plug the ozone layer put coal on the back burner. Jobs producing CFCs are off into the stratosphere. But for workers in polluting industries, it's not all bad - unions have a plan to ensure it's the problem and not the workforce that is dumped. Hazards looks at new union clean production and Just Transition strategies. Official watchdogs missed an epidemic of industrial disease at a UK chemical factory.