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16 April 2025

Occupational cancers in retired workers involved in tyre production in Scotland and missing cases: a social justice issue?

Andy Watterson is Professor Emeritus at the University of Stirling, his guest blog looks at occupational disease in Scotland’s tyre manufacturing industry, the connection to bladder cancer and why we […]

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11 March 2025

Silicosis – know the symptoms, know your rights.

Today, the HSE are welcoming delegates to their Buxton HQ for a one day event. Controlling Exposures to Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) is aimed at advising employers on steps they […]

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30 January 2025

Severe Weather – People Before Profit

Assessing risks arising from severe weather is no different from other workplace risk assessments, other than employers should consider risks arising from employees travelling to and from their workplace and […]

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24 September 2024

Occupational Health and Safety Awareness Week – #OHAW2024 Day 2

Employment Medical Advisory Service – ever decreasing circles Lord Robens may have been a curious choice to review Britain’s health and safety system given his close connection to the Aberfan […]

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23 September 2024

Occupational Health Awareness Week – #OHWA2024 Day One

This week marks Occupational Health Awareness Week  The most commonly used figure quoted for workers who have access to occupational health services is 45%,. Scottish Hazards disputes this figure as […]

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17 January 2024

Union Workplaces are Safer Workplaces

  In 2020 Clive Hendry, an employee of Mowi Scotland was killed at work, during a crew transfer between a workboat and a feed barge. The company was fined £800,000 […]

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9 November 2023

McDonald’s, Sexual Harassment and Silent Regulators

McDonalds is under the spotlight once more for failing to protect their employees from sexual harassment. In February the company entering into a binding agreement with the Equality and Human […]

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3 November 2023

Let’s Be Heard

Let’s be Heard is the opportunity for the people of Scotland to have their voices heard by the COVID Public Inquiry.  Views are being sought from individuals and groups across […]

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19 September 2023

My Four Years of Delay, Despair and Disappointment

On the 19th September 2019 my husband John Mackay suffered a horrific death, killed while working for Nationwide Platforms Loxam as a platform operator on the site of the former […]

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