GMB issues new guides on retail hazards and risk assessment. Unions press for action on workplace violence. You work the longest hours in Europe - but the government is worried about business. Amendments to the working hours regulations will leave over a million white collar workers without proper protection from long hours - a move unions plan to challenge in the European Court. HSE study shows one in five workers are now very stressed or worse.
New study says work is now less secure and more intense than at any time since the war.
A rash of large union-won compensation payouts for stress could be the first of hundreds. Reduce lead, improve sperm. Vanadium pentoxide may cause cancer, does damage lungs. A-Z of recent HSC and HSE publications.