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- Topic 86 Hazards Networker no. 92-05
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- Hazards Networker
- (Electronic mail edition) No 92/05 - July 1992
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- Current information on workplace and community health and safety
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-
- Hazards Networker aims to provide a means for labour, community
- and resource organisations to share health and safety
- information.
-
- Hazards Networker describes health and safety documents by or for
- trade unionists and community campaigners, including local
- agreements, site reports and other unpublished material. Plus a
- selection from official publications, academic studies,
- management magazines and the press.
-
- The entries are from the library database at the London Hazards
- Centre, a resource centre providing advice, information and
- training for workplace and community groups.
-
- If you have a piece of information you think other people could
- use, send it to the Networker. Either send us a copy of the
- document with your comments on it, or ask us for some cataloguing
- forms.
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- We would like to find volunteer translators who could make
- English summaries for the Networker, and who might also make
- translations of complete documents which users requested. German,
- French, Italian, Spanish are the main languages we might need,
- but not the only ones.
-
- Hazards Networker is run cheaply for the benefit of people who
- can't afford expensive commercial or official health and safety
- information. We get no grant support for its production, so
- please support us by helping get new subscriptions to the paper
- version.
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- Prices: PSt (Pounds sterling) unless specified.
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-
- REF: 9205001
- FIET for better conditions in hairdressing and beauty care. News
- item. FIET info n4/5 p7-8 --MAY92
- COMMENT: First international conference on FIET's Hair and Beauty
- Care Trade Section: expressed concerns over chemical hazards, but
- praised EC directives on cosmetics.
- SUBJECTS: COSMETICS/ HAIRDRESSING/
-
- REF: 9205002
- Justice for janitors: Apple campaign bears fruit. News item.
- FIET info n4/5 p1-2. --MAY92 Supplier: FIET, 15 avenue de Baxelert,
- 1219 Chatelaine-Geneva, Switzerland; 022-796-2733.
- COMMENT: Contractor cleaning Apple Computers California HQ has been
- forced to recognise Service Employees Union (SEIU) representation by
- the well-organised Justice for Janitors Campaign. The campaign has
- forced recognition from a number of other anti-union computer firms
- including IBM. Hazards, including sexual harassment, are on the
- campaign's agenda.
- SUBJECTS: APPLE COMPUTERS/ CLEANING/ ELECTRONICS/ UNION-BUSTING/ USA/
-
- REF: 9205003
- Submission by the National Communications Union to the Health and
- Safety Executive in respect of the proposals for regulation and
- guidance on the EC directive on work with display screen equipment
- (90/270/EEC). Sapper, Simon; NCU (National Communications Union).
- Typescript, 7pp. --MAY92 Supplier: NCU, 150 Brunswick Road, London W5
- 1AW; 081-998 2981.
- COMMENT: Punchy criticism of the UK's proposed implementation of the
- EC 'VDU Directive'. The draft regulations seek to minimise the impact
- of the directive and evade the requirements for work-station
- standards and eye testing. Sapper was a union representative on the
- HSC committee which drew up the proposals, from which the union side
- dissented strongly.
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW/ VDUS/
-
- REF: 9205004
- More comments and news from West Midlands. News item. WEA
- Walsall monthly bulletin n155 --JUN92
- COMMENT: News of anti-pollution campaigns in West Midlands.
- Successful protest against incinerator in Warwick. Resistance to
- proposed incinerator at Foxyards former sewage works.
- SUBJECTS: CAMPAIGNS/ INCINERATORS/ POLLUTION/ WEST MIDLANDS/
-
- REF: 9205005
- Health, safety and welfare report to Walsall Trades Union Council,
- June 1992. WEA Walsall monthly bulletin n155 --JUN92
- COMMENT: Current concerns include the very high dioxin pollution
- levels, and the handling of waste (flytipping, incinerators). Recalls
- recent convictions of companies Leigh and Shanks/McEwan.
- SUBJECTS: CONVICTIONS/ DIOXIN/ WASTE/
-
- REF: 9205006
- OCAW comments on pesticide law: statement ... before the US Senate
- committee on Agriculture... Wages, Robert E; Oil, Chemical and
- Atomic Workers International Union (OCAW). 20MAY92 Supplier: E-mail:
- GEO2:HAZARDS-BBS; igc:labornet.
- COMMENT: US chemical workers' union comments on the 'Circle of
- Poison Prevention Act'. This act would ban manufacture of pesticides
- including chlordane and heptachlor. OCAW calls for measures to
- re-train workers for worthwhile jobs, and a medical monitoring
- programme.
- SUBJECTS: CHLORDANE/ CIRCLE OF POISON PREVENTION ACT/ HEPTACHLOR/
- PESTICIDES BANS/ USA/ VELSICOL/
-
- REF: 9205007
- It's time to ban those fishtails Sinclair, Ross (UCATT North West
- Region). Letter. UCATT viewpoint --JUN92
- COMMENT: Fishtail brick ties are a twisted metal strip with sharp
- slit ends that frequently cause serious cuts. Trade union pressure
- and successful compensation cases have now led to production of
- alternative designs.
- SUBJECTS: BRICKLAYING/ SUBSTITUTION/
-
- REF: 9205008
- Weightwatching drive by UCATT. News item. UCATT viewpoint
- --JUN92
- COMMENT: UCATT at Manchester council are negotiating the union's
- first comprehensive agreement on lifting heavy loads, based on the
- European Community directive.
- SUBJECTS: AGREEMENTS/ CONSTRUCTION/ LIFTING/
-
- REF: 9205009
- All the hazards under the sun. O'Neill, Rory (Sheffield
- Occupational Health Project). Feature article UCATT viewpoint
- --JUN92
- COMMENT: Advice for outdoor workers on protection from excessive
- sunlight. Even before the hole in the ozone layer was detected,
- building workers had an above average rate of skin cancers. This
- article can be used as a factsheet on the subject.
- SUBJECTS: CONSTRUCTION/ SUNLIGHT/
-
- REF: 9205010
- Safety directives watered down. Feature article Labour research
- v81 n6 p19-20 --JUN92
- COMMENT: Trade unions criticise the HSE's dilution of European
- Community directives on health and safety as they draw up the UK
- implementation. Key issues are the right to refuse dangerous work,
- VDUs, noise, and enforcement resources.
- SUBJECTS: ENFORCEMENT/ EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/ NOISE/ STOP THE JOB/
- VDUS - LAW/
-
- REF: 9205011
- Accidents at work. Feature article Labour research v81 n6 p24
- --JUN92
- COMMENT: Summary of reporting (RIDDOR) and inspection obligations
- and rights after an incident ('accident').
- SUBJECTS: ACCIDENTS/ REPORTING/
-
- REF: 9205012
- Organochlorine pesticides. Gullestrup, Jorgen. News item.
- Hazards: bulletin of the Queensland Workers Health Centre, n30 p10-11
- --MAR92
- COMMENT: Australian building workers' union is campaigning for a
- total ban on organochlorine pesticides, having achieved a ban for
- building sites.
- SUBJECTS: AUSTRALIA/ CONSTRUCTION/ ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDES/
- PESTICIDES BANS/
-
- REF: 9205013
- Dealing with sexual harassment: guidelines for members and
- representatives. TGWU Booklet, 12pp. --MAR92 Supplier: TGWU,
- Transport House, Smith Square, London SW1P 3JB.
- COMMENT: A good guide for trade unionists. Explains the problem and
- its politics, gives clear plan for addressing it. Covers harassment
- by members of the same union or another union. Model policy. TGWU
- regional contacts.
- SUBJECTS: SEXUAL HARASSMENT/
-
- REF: 9205014
- Safety reps information and inspection rights. Feature article
- Bargaining report n117 p6 --MAY92 Bargaining brief
- COMMENT: Summarises rights in factsheet form.
- SUBJECTS: HEALTH AND SAFETY INSPECTIONS/ INFORMATION ACCESS/
-
- REF: 9205015
- Smoking and alcohol policies at work. Feature article
- Bargaining report n117 p14-15 --MAY92
- COMMENT: Concern about productivity is leading employers to bring in
- total bans on smoking and alcohol. Unions want policies that provide
- facilities to encourage and enable workers to abide by policies.
- Summarises a number of union and employers' views and policies.
- Reproduces ACAS checklist for alcohol policy.
- SUBJECTS: AGREEMENTS/ ALCOHOLISM/ SMOKING/
-
- REF: 9205016
- Competition, cuts and contractors: lessons for trade unionists from
- three flagship London boroughs. NALGO; Centre for Public
- Services. 57pp. --MAR92 Supplier: CFPS, 1 Sidney St. Sheffield S1
- 4RG. Price: 5.00 to trade unions and community groups.
- COMMENT: Detailed report from NALGO Met District and three NALGO
- branches investigates extent and consequences of privatisation in
- London's Conservative flagship boroughs - Westminster, Wandsworth and
- Kensington and Chelsea.
- SUBJECTS: KENSINGTON AND CHELSEA/ PRIVATISATION/ WANDSWORTH/
- WESTMINSTER/
-
- REF: 9205017
- Workers' rights and 1992: LRD guide to the Social Charter and the
- Action Programme. LRD (Labour Research Department). Booklet,
- 38pp. --FEB90 Supplier: LRD, 78 Blackfriars Road, London SE1. Price:
- 1.40 ISBN: 0-946-898-316
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/
-
- REF: 9205018
- Out at work: lesbian and gay workers rights. Labour Research
- Department. Booklet 32pp. --JUL92 Supplier: LRD, 78 Blackfriars
- Road, London SE1 8YX. Price: PSt 1.50 labour movement, 10 others.
- COMMENT: How unions should, can and sometimes do support gay and
- lesbian members against victimisation, harassment and suppression of
- their identity. Surveys workplace agreements, union structures and
- initiatives.
- SUBJECTS: AGREEMENTS/ LESBIANS AND GAYS/
-
- REF: 9205019
- Silent injury: strain injuries and bus drivers in South Yorkshire.
- TGWU Central Committee South Yorkshire Transport; TGWU Region 9.
- Booklet 8pp. --JUN92 Supplier: TGWU Region 9, Blenheim Terrace,
- Leeds. Price: Free?
- COMMENT: Survey conducted in summer 1991 shows high level of
- muscular/skeletal strain injuries among South Yorkshire bus drivers.
- Two thirds reported back pain, half reported neck or shoulder pain,
- leg problems were also reported. Seat design and long shifts were the
- main reasons given. Action and recommendations focused on cab and
- seat design, scheduling, compensation, awareness.
- SUBJECTS: BACK/ BUSWORKERS/ COMPENSATION/ DRIVING/ JOB DESIGN/
- REPETITION STRAIN INJURIES/ SHIFTWORK/
-
- REF: 9205020
- Work-related upper limb disorders: health and safety guide.
- USDAW. Booklet 48pp. --APR92 Supplier: USDAW, 188 Wilmslow Road,
- Manchester M14 6LJ Price: 1.50 members, 10 others.
- COMMENT: Shopworkers' union guide on RSI/WRULD. Looks clear and well
- laid out. Step-by-step explanation on organising to prevent it,
- including a security of employment agreement so victims aren't afraid
- to report RSI for fear of the sack.
- SUBJECTS: FRUSTRATION OF CONTRACT/ REPETITION STRAIN INJURIES/
- SHOPWORK/
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- LABOUR / COMMUNITY / CAMPAIGN / RESOURCE
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- REF: 9205021
- Unlocking the factory door: the community demands the right-to-know.
- Is industry working? Having the ability to act. Report to the Coode
- Island Review Panel. HAZMAG (Hazardous Materials Action Group);
- Adams Paul; Ruchel, Matt. 56pp + appendices. --MAR92 Supplier:
- HAZMAG, PO Box 27, Yarraville, Victoria, Australia 3013. ISBN:
- 0-646-09035-6
- COMMENT: The Review Panel was set up after fires at chemical storage
- facilities at Coode Island in August 1991. This report reviews and
- evaluates local and international models of community right-to-know
- legislation; identifies issues and makes recommendations about the
- role of communities in monitoring the chemical industry.
- SUBJECTS: AUSTRALIA/ CHEMICAL INDUSTRY/ INFORMATION ACCESS/
-
- REF: 9205022
- Accident at Mexican pesticide plant raises local and international
- health and safety issues. PANUPS 23APR92
- COMMENT: A major spill of hydrochloric acid occurred in Mexicali on
- 12 January 1992. It showed hazards of pesticides plants to local
- community, and failures in government protection and information
- rules. Gives actions and contacts.
- SUBJECTS: DISASTERS/ HYDROCHLORIC ACID/ MEXICO/ PESTICIDES INDUSTRY/
- USA/
-
- REF: 9205023
- Ban sought on pesticide that destroys ozone layer. Californians
- for Alternatives to Toxics (CATs). 9pp 16APR92 Supplier: CATs, 860
- 1/2 11th St, Arcata, CA 95521, USA.
- COMMENT: Methyl bromide, used as a pesticide in homes, is under
- attack from both environmentalists and health and safety campaigners.
- US EPA restricted its use after two people were killed by its
- domestic use.
- SUBJECTS: DEATHS/ METHYL BROMIDE/ PESTICIDES BANS/ USA/
-
- REF: 9205024
- ANC press statement on toxic waste importation. African National
- Congress (ANC). 31MAR92 Supplier: E-mail: posted in gn:labor.toxics
- by igc.africafund.
- COMMENT: Denounces Thor Chemicals, a UK subsidiary which poisoned
- workers and community with mercury.
- SUBJECTS: EXPORTING HAZARDS/ MERCURY/ SOUTH AFRICA/ THOR CHEMICALS/
- TOXIC WASTE/
-
- REF: 9205025
- Oil on their faces: management at British Rail. Merritt, Mike.
- News item. 04JUN92
- Supplier: E-mail BB MCR1:HAZARDS-NEWS from MCR1:MIKE.MERRITT.
- COMMENT: Railway guards in Dorset were required to walk along
- electrified through track in order to inspect trains carrying waste
- gas from the Wych Farm oilfield. Management stonewalled attempts to
- negotiate on the hazard. Finally the trainmen refused to do the work.
- They won. Mike argues that HSWA section 7 gives the right (in fact
- the duty) to refuse unsafe work.
- SUBJECTS: INDUSTRIAL ACTION/ OIL DRILLING/ RAILWAYS/ STOP THE JOB/
-
- REF: 9205026
- Annual report 1991/92. Nottingham RSI Support Group. Typescript
- 4pp. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Interesting account of a year's grass-roots campaigning and
- investigation on RSI.
- SUBJECTS: ORGANISING/ REPETITION STRAIN INJURIES/
-
- REF: 9205027
- What happens when 'quality' programs come to the health care
- industry? Colatosti, Camille Feature article Labor notes n159
- p3 & 9. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Cost cutting 'quality' programmes in US health care
- industry create health problems of workload stress (burn-out) for
- workers.
- SUBJECTS: CONTROL OVER YOUR WORK/ CUTS/ HEALTH CARE/ JOB DESIGN/
- STRESS/ USA/
-
- REF: 9205029
- Guide to the Commonwealth Health and safety act. Muir, Alan.
- Feature article Hazards: bulletin of the Queensland Workers Health
- Centre, n30 p2-8 --MAR92
- COMMENT: Detailed summary and assessment of new Australian health
- and safety law.
- SUBJECTS: AUSTRALIA/ LAW/
-
- REF: 9205030
- Experts debate indoor environment: conference report. McLoughlin,
- Deb Feature article Hazards: bulletin of the Queensland Workers
- Health Centre, n30 p12-15 --MAR92
- COMMENT: Worker's health centre delegate's detailed account of the
- discussions on sick building syndrome at the Asia-Pacific Public
- Works Conference, September 1991. One report suggests that sump
- temperature is more important in controlling legionella than cooling
- tower hygiene or biocides. Another suggests that cleaning methods
- play a part: for example ordinary vacuum cleaners just throw up the
- finer dust to breathing level.
- SUBJECTS: DUST/ LEGIONNAIRES DISEASE/ SICK BUILDING SYNDROME/
-
- REF: 9205031
- Halophen, halophane and dichlorophen. London Hazards Centre.
- Factsheet. Rev ed. --JUL91
- SUBJECTS: HALOPHEN/
-
- REF: 9205032
- Fact sheet on farm worker health, working conditions and pestcicides.
- Pesticides Action Network, North America. 24APR92 Supplier:
- igc/en-pesticides conference.
- COMMENT: Review of current situation in North America.
- SUBJECTS: AGRICULTURE/ PESTICIDES/ USA/
-
- REF: 9205033
- Report of third RSI conference, April 1992, Manchester College.
- 8pp. --APR92 Supplier: NELASH, 7 Croydon Street, Blackburn, Lancs BB2
- 6HF.
- COMMENT: Conference of activists and support groups. Includes report
- from a workshop held on European Community directives. This report
- was submitted to the Health and Safety Executive in response to its
- consultative document on the VDU directive.
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/ REPETITION STRAIN INJURIES/ VDUS/
-
- REF: 9205034
- International union rights International Centre for Trade Union
- Rights (ICTUR); Trask, Roger (editor). Journal, quarterly --APR92
- Supplier: ICTUR, 203 North Gower St., London NW1 2NL.
- COMMENT: Political journal on union struggles, mainly focusing on
- right to organise and state repression. Occasional health and safety
- content. Spanish summaries provided from issue 2 onwards. LHC has all
- issues. ICTUR has UK and USA offices and the president is John Hendy,
- QC.
- SUBJECTS: RIGHTS AT WORK/ TRADE UNIONS/ VICTIMISATION/
-
- REF: 9205035
- Feeling the heat: outdoor workers and exposure to sunlight.
- Sheffield Occupational Health Project (SOHP); Sheffield Trade Union
- Safety Committee. Leaflet --JUN92 Supplier: 37 Exchange St.,
- Sheffield S1 5TR. Price: Free?
- COMMENT: Good practical workers' summary of hazards and prevention.
- SUBJECTS: HEAT/ OUTDOOR WORK/ SUNLIGHT/
-
- REF: 9205036
- Do you have occupational asthma? Sheffield Occupational Health
- Project (SOHP); Sheffield Trade Union Safety Committee. Leaflet
- --JUN92 Supplier: 37 Exchange St., Sheffield S1 5TR. Price: Free?
- COMMENT: Good practical workers' guide to DSS benefit for
- occupational asthma.
- SUBJECTS: ALLERGY/ ASTHMA/ INDUSTRIAL BENEFIT/
-
- REF: 9205037
- Common interests: women organising in global electronics. Women
- Working Worldwide. Book 237pp. -----91 Supplier: WWW, Box 92, 190
- Upper Street, London N1 1RQ, UK. Price: PSt 6.99 ISBN: 0-9517075-0-7
- COMMENT: First hand accounts of women workers' experiences and
- struggles in the worldwide micro-electronics industry. Chapters on:
- South Korea, USA, Scotland, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Thailand,
- Italy, Malaysia, Japan, India, Pakistan, Philippines. Contacts and
- resource list.
- SUBJECTS: CHINA/ ELECTRONICS/ HONG KONG/ INDIA/ ITALY/ JAPAN/
- MALAYSIA/ PAKISTAN/ PHILIPPINES/ SCOTLAND/ SOUTH KOREA/ TAIWAN/
- THAILAND/ USA/ WOMEN/
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- REF: 9205038
- Personal protective equipment: a ceramics industry booklet. HSC:
- Ceramics Industry Advisory Committee. Booklet. --JUN92 IAC/L56
- Supplier: HSE. Price: Free.
- SUBJECTS: CERAMICS INDUSTRY/ PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT/
-
- REF: 9205039
- Asbestos in kilns and driers: a ceramics industry booklet. HSC:
- Ceramics Industry Advisory Committee. Booklet. --JUN92 IAC/L57
- Supplier: HSE. Price: Free.
- SUBJECTS: ASBESTOS - WORKPLACE/ CERAMICS INDUSTRY/
-
- REF: 9205040
- Noise: a ceramics industry booklet. HSC: Ceramics Industry
- Advisory Committee. Booklet. --JUN92 IAC/L54 Supplier: HSE.
- Price: Free.
- SUBJECTS: CERAMICS INDUSTRY/ NOISE/
-
- REF: 9205041
- Workplace inspection: a ceramics industry booklet. HSC: Ceramics
- Industry Advisory Committee. Booklet. --JUN92 IAC/L55 Supplier:
- HSE. Price: Free.
- SUBJECTS: CERAMICS INDUSTRY/ HEALTH AND SAFETY INSPECTIONS/
-
- REF: 9205042
- COSHH and peripatetic workers. HSE Booklet 16pp HMSO 22JUN92
- HS(G)77 Price: 4.00 ISBN: 0-11-885733-9
- COMMENT: Workers covered include cleaners, drivers, building trades,
- postworkers, engineers, salespeople, doctors, home helps, refuse
- collectors, surveyors and anyone else who doesn't work always at a
- fixed place.
- SUBJECTS: CLEANING/ CONSTRUCTION/ CONTROL OF SUBSTANCES HAZARDOUS TO
- HEALTH/ NON-EMPLOYEES/ PAINTING AND DECORATING/ PERIPATETIC WORKERS/
- REFUSE COLLECTION/ VISITORS/
-
- REF: 9205043
- Local authorities report on health and safety in service industries
- 1990-91. HSE: HELA (Health and Safety Enforcement Liaison
- Committee). Book 85pp. HMSO 30JUN92 Price: 4.75 ISBN:
- 0-11-885741-X
- COMMENT: Important statistical source on shops, catering, garages,
- social care, leisure, etc. This year shows 2 per cent more major
- injuries and 8 per cent more incidents ('accidents'). Special
- chapters on: violence to shopworkers, mineral fibres, RSIs,
- dermatitis in hairdressers and florists, legionnaire's disease, sick
- building syndrome, warehouses, peripatetic workers. Explains
- enforcement responsibilities.
- SUBJECTS: DERMATITIS/ FLORISTS/ HAIRDRESSING/ LEGIONNAIRES DISEASE/
- MANUFACTURED MINERAL FIBRES/ PERIPATETIC WORKERS/ REPETITION STRAIN
- INJURIES/ SERVICE INDUSTRIES/ SHOPWORK/ SICK BUILDING SYNDROME/
- VIOLENCE/ WAREHOUSES/
-
- REF: 9205044
- Asbestos: worker protection and further prohibitions: proposal for
- regulations and guidance. HSC --JUN92 Supplier: Robert Jones
- Memorial Workshops, Units 3 & 5-9, Grain Industrial Estate, Harlow
- Street, Liverpool L8 4UH (tel 051-709 1354/5/6; fax 051-709 1478).
- Price: Free
- COMMENT: Proposed regulations to implement EC directives in UK.
- Deadline for comments is 31 July 1992, although it was not issued
- until 8 June 1992.
- SUBJECTS: ASBESTOS - WORKPLACE/ EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/
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- REF: 9205045
- List of pesticides banned and severely restricted in the United
- States. USA: Environmental Protection Agency PANNA 29MAY92
- COMMENT: 43 banned pesticides and 10 restricted ones.
- SUBJECTS: PESTICIDES BANS/ USA/
-
- REF: 9205046
- Action plan to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. Kilbom, Asa.
- News item. Research news n1/92 -----92 Supplier: National Institute
- of Occupational Health, S1717 84 Solna, Sweden.
- COMMENT: The Swedes are working on a national plan of preventive
- action on RSI.
- SUBJECTS: REPETITION STRAIN INJURIES/ SWEDEN/
-
- REF: 9205047
- Proposal for a Council directive on the protection of young people at
- work. European Commission Law text Official journal no C 84
- p7-12. 18MAR92 Price: 3.75
- COMMENT: Specifies processes and exposures which young people would
- not be permitted to work with if exposure could be thought to damage
- their health (who decides?). Night work and working time covered.
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/ YOUNG PEOPLE/
-
- REF: 9205048
- Environmental strategy. London Borough of Barnet. --JAN91
- Supplier: LB Barnet, Chief Executive's Dept, Town Hall, Hendon,
- London NW4 4BG.
- COMMENT: Papers relating to the development of an environmental
- protection strategy, notably paper on use of pesticides. Ban on
- atrazine and simazine decided and other moves made to reduce
- pesticide use.
- SUBJECTS: BARNET/ PESTICIDES BANS/
-
- REF: 9205049
- Update on health and safety issues. Hughes, Stephen (MEP)
- Typescript 01JUL92
- COMMENT: Summary of negotiations on health & safety issues in the EC
- Social Affairs Council by the Socialist Group spokesperson. Mainly
- concerns working time and pregnancy proposals. Attaches leaked copy
- of UK government's negotiating position.
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITY LAW/ HOURS OF WORK/ PREGNANCY/
-
- REF: 9205050
- Provincial/territorial governments provide interim funding to save
- CCOHS free inquiries service. CCOHS (Canadian Centre for
- Occupational Health and Safety. News release. 24MAR92
- COMMENT: The CCOHS has been forced to suspend its newsletter and
- education activities because the government is forcing it to become
- self-funding. The Centre's commitment to supplying health and safety
- information freely or cheaply to those who need it was a good example
- to other government agencies and its elimination will be a loss.
- SUBJECTS: CANADA/ INFORMATION ACCESS/ PROFIT AND SAFETY/
-
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- REF: 9205051
- Case control study of lung cancer in a cohort of workers potentially
- exposed to slag wool fibres. Musselman, E G (USG Corporation).
- Letter. BJIM v49 p454. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Supports report that slag wool doesn't cause lung cancer;
- suggests that this is because it breaks up more quickly than other
- manufactured fibres.
- SUBJECTS: LUNG CANCER/ MANUFACTURED MINERAL FIBRES/ SLAG WOOL/
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- REF: 9205052
- Asbestos and cancer: history and public policy. Morgan, W K C
- (University Hospital, London, Ontario). Letter BJIM v49 n6 p451.
- --JUN92
- COMMENT: Continues the controversy over the date of the asbestos
- industry's guilty knowledge. Defends the manufacturers, vituperates
- correspondent Weller, and appears to allege bribery of the judiciary
- by claimants.
- SUBJECTS: ASBESTOS - INDUSTRY/
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- REF: 9205053
- Small airways dysfunction among non-smoking shipyard arc welders.
- Hjortsberg, Ulf, & others (Malmo General Hospital). Research paper
- BJIM v49 n6 p441-444. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Found small airways disease in 14 welders who were
- non-smokers and atopic (ie not subject to allergies).
- SUBJECTS: ALLERGY/ LUNG/ SMOKING/ WELDING/
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- REF: 9205054
- Diagnoses of alcohol abuse and other neuropsychiatric disorders among
- house painters compared with house carpenters. Lundberg, Ivar, &
- others (Karolinska Hospital; Sweden: National Institute of
- Occupational Health) Research paper BJIM v49 n6 p409-415. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Shows that painters have an apparently higher rate of
- alcoholism than house carpenters who drink the same amounts: this
- apparent rate of alcoholism is probably due to paint solvents
- interacting with a typical alcohol intake.
- SUBJECTS: ALCOHOLISM/ PAINT/ SOLVENTS/
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- REF: 9205055
- Studying the effects of industrial emissions. Safety and Health
- Practitioner v10 n6 p4-5. --JUN92
- COMMENT: Debate around the validity of epidemiological studies of
- the effects of industrial emissions on the health of local
- communities. Professor Pocock of the London School of Hygiene and
- Tropical Medicine argues that exposure is difficult to determine and
- alleges that the objectivity of many studies is compromised by those
- involved being committed in advance to certain findings. Professor
- Bhopal of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who carried out a
- detailed study of the health effects of emissions from the Monkton
- Coking Works, takes an opposing view. Also reports on work of the
- Small Area Health Statistics Unit (based at the London School of
- Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), set up to investigate the incidence
- of disease near to industrial sites.
- SUBJECTS: AIR POLLUTION/ COMMUNITY HEALTH/ STATISTICS/
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- REF: 9205057
- Crown court to hear death case. Prior, Grant. News item.
- Construction news 30APR92
- COMMENT: Magistrates ignored HSE inspector Bob Tunnicliffe's views
- and referred a construction death case to the Crown court. The death
- was that of John Rowland at a Demolition UK site at Ronan Point, East
- London.
- SUBJECTS: CONSTRUCTION/ DEATHS/ PROSECUTIONS/
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- REF: 9205058
- Crane driver slams HSE over site accident probe. Prior, Grant.
- News item. Construction news 23APR92
- COMMENT: HSE admits that it often decides whether or not to
- investigate an accident solely on the basis of the employer's own
- report. As a result, in this case, it failed to investigate the
- disabling of a crane driver, Roger Beesley, employed by Rees Hough at
- Sevenoaks.
- SUBJECTS: CONSTRUCTION/ ENFORCEMENT/ HEALTH AND SAFETY EXECUTIVE/
-
- REF: 9205059
- Many nurses 'ignorant and prejudiced about AIDS'. Brindle, David
- News item. Guardian 15MAY92
- COMMENT: Royal College of Pathologists reports low risk of HIV to
- health workers: 60 cases worldwide, one being in Britain. Despite
- this many nurses are frightened of working with HIV/AIDS sufferers.
- SUBJECTS: ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME/ HEALTH SERVICES/
- NURSING/
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- REF: 9205060
- Weedkiller ban follows breach of drinking water limit.
- Ehrlichman, James. News item. Guardian 13MAY92
- COMMENT: Atrazine and simazine are banned for non-farm uses in the
- UK from 31 August 1992, and for aerial crop spraying. Non-farm users
- include local councils and British Rail. The ban results from
- detection of water contamination levels above European Community
- limits.
- SUBJECTS: ATRAZINE/ PARKS AND GARDENS/ PESTICIDES BANS/ RAILWAYS/
- SIMAZINE/
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- REF: 9205061
- 'Why are our babies dying?' Allen, Robert. Feature article.
- Independent 10MAY92
- COMMENT: Women in the Donegal town of Carndonagh suffer a high rate
- of miscarriages and birth disorders since adhesives manufacturer
- Truloc started operations 5 years ago. Formaldehyde and cyanide are
- among the pollutants. Typical and accepted formaldehyde exposure
- symptoms of skin and lungs are experienced: the reproductive hazard
- is controversial.
- SUBJECTS: ADHESIVES/ AIR POLLUTION/ BIRTH DEFECTS/ CYANIDE/
- FORMALDEHYDE/ IRELAND/ MISCARRIAGES/
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- REF: 9205062
- Hooked on IT. Herman, Gary. Feature article. New statesman
- and society p26 01MAY92
- COMMENT: Reports a conference on labour movement use of information
- technology and electronic communication, Manchester, April 1992.
- London Hazards Centre participated. Herman (like the participants who
- were drawn from 5 continents) sees electronic mail as a useful tool.
- SUBJECTS: ELECTRONIC MAIL/ INFORMATION FINDING/ INFORMATION HANDLING/
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- REF: 9205063
- Tenant-friendly pest control puts Lambeth ahead of schedule. News
- item. Env health news v7 n22 p3 05JUN92
- COMMENT: Lambeth has set up a prioritised block treatment system to
- deal with cockroach and pharaoh's ants infestations. The programme is
- ahead of schedule the systematic approach has reduced the workload
- which used to result from dealing with infestations piecemeal.
- Success is partly attributed to the new insecticide hydramethlynon
- because it doesn't smell, and is quick to apply. No information about
- toxicity. This successful programme is threatened by poll tax
- capping.
- SUBJECTS: BLOCK TREATMENT/ COCKROACHES/ HYDRAMETHLYNON/ INSECTICIDES/
- LAMBETH/ PEST CONTROL/ PHARAOHS ANTS/ TOWER BLOCKS/
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- REF: 9205064
- Peckham flats in legionella scare. News item. Environmental
- health news v7 n22 p5 05JUN92
- COMMENT: Legionella found in showers used by workers servicing water
- heating boilers. Southwark runs 3-monthly checks on water supplies in
- council blocks. Council shut down all water supply, chlorinated,
- informed tenants and notified local hospital. Seems an example of
- good practice.
- SUBJECTS: HOUSING/ LEGIONNAIRES DISEASE/ MAINTENANCE/ SOUTHWARK/
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- REF: 9205065
- Farmworkers still at risk: federal report. Asher, Julie.
- Feature article San Francisco Bay Guardian 25MAR92 Supplier: PANUPS
- COMMENT: A US governmental report finds that farmworkers' conditions
- haven't improved in 15 years. 300,000 illnesses and injuries a year,
- inadequate hazards information, inadequate protection, children
- exposed, etc.
- SUBJECTS: AGRICULTURE/ CHILDREN/ DEATHS/ PESTICIDES/ STATISTICS/ USA/
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- REF: 9205066
- SA to check mercury risks at Thor. News item. Guardian 04JUN92
- COMMENT: 'The uglier face of British capitalism is about to be
- exposed in South Africa once again'. Three workers for Thor
- Chemicals, subsidiary of a UK company, are dying of mercury
- poisoning.
- SUBJECTS: EXPORTING HAZARDS/ MERCURY/ POLLUTION/ SOUTH AFRICA/ THOR
- CHEMICALS/
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- REF: 9205067
- Hot-blooded busmen can show a leg. News item. South London
- press 29MAY92
- COMMENT: TGWU members in 3 south London bus garages forced bosses to
- permit wearing of shorts in hot weather; management at first
- threatened to send home anyone wearing shorts. Modern bus design has
- poor ventilation.
- SUBJECTS: BUSWORKERS/ HOT WORKPLACES/
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- REF: 9205068
- Midwife Anita wins reinstatement fight. News item. Hackney
- Gazette 01MAY92
- COMMENT: Midwife Anita Ceesay shouted at a hospital visitor who
- racially abused her and threatened violence. She was summarily
- sacked. Following support by other health workers she was
- re-instated. Her employer, the Royal London Hospital Trust is
- 'considering' reintroducing a training programme for staff on dealing
- with violence. (LHC asks: why was the programme dropped?)
- SUBJECTS: DISMISSAL/ HEALTH SERVICE/ RACISM/ VIOLENCE/
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- REF: 9205069
- Gummer acts on sheep dip hazard. News item. Guardian 06JUN92
- COMMENT: Compulsory dipping of sheep in insecticides and fungicides
- is to cease in UK. Twenty years of organophosphorous saturation have
- failed to eliminate scab and tick, have poisoned workers and animals,
- and have contaminated ground and water.
- SUBJECTS: ORGANOPHOSPHATES/ PESTICIDE BANS/
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- REF: 9205070
- Allergic contact dermatitis caused by epoxy resins. Nixon, R;
- Frowen, K. Research paper. Journal of occupational health and
- safety: Australia and New Zealand). --MAR92
- COMMENT: 'In a recent Australian study of 234 workers using epoxy
- resins, a total of 52 were found to have an occupational skin
- disease, of which 24 were allergic in nature. Almost all affected
- workers continued working despite this, most took little time off,
- and many didn't see a doctor. The researchers concluded that
- occupational allergic contact dermatitis may be much more common than
- is estimated in studies based on either workers compensation
- statistics or from the records of specialised dermatology clinics.
- (Comment by Queensland Workers Health Centre in their bulletin
- 'Hazards', n30, March 92.
- SUBJECTS: ALLERGY/ AUSTRALIA/ DERMATITIS/ EPOXY RESINS/ REPORTING/
- STATISTICS/
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- REF: 9205071
- Computers and visual stress: how to enhance visual comfort while
- using computers. Godnig, Edward; Hacunda, John. Book, 108pp.
- -----90 Supplier: Seacoast Information Services, 4446 South County
- Trail, Charlestown, RI 02813, USA. ISBN: 0-9625708-5-0
- COMMENT: Written by a software engineer and an optometrist. Partly
- on stress relief techniques and eye exercises but recognises problems
- associated with job design, lack of breaks etc. Gives labour contacts
- and mentions De Matteo's work.
- SUBJECTS: VDUS - EYES/
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- REF: 9205072
- Health and safety across Europe. Feature article. Environmental
- Health v100 n5 p112-114. --MAY92
- COMMENT: Brief survey of legal framework and accident statistics in
- Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
- SUBJECTS: ACCIDENT STATISTICS/ EUROPE/ FRANCE/ GERMANY/ HEALTH AND
- SAFETY LAW/ ITALY/ SPAIN/
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- REF: 9205073
- European Safety Newsletter (ESN). Journal. Supplier: ESN, Unit 3,
- St Georges Ind. Est. White Hart Lane, London N22 5QL. Tel:
- 081-888-2734. Price: 65.00 p.a.
- COMMENT: Began publishing May 1992. Monthly. Aimed at management and
- at this price not useful for labour movement.
- SUBJECTS: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES LAW/
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- REF: 9205074
- Leader of the subway safety sect. Balian, J; Osborne, Alan
- (London Underground). Feature article Safety and health
- practitioner v10 n7 p28-31. --JUL92
- COMMENT: Interview with Director of Safety on London Underground
- about the situation as LUL cuts staff, introduces more contractors,
- and is criticised in the HSE 'Holden' report on signal-related
- accidents. LUL contests Holden's views and is carrying out its own
- study on signalling: the method, quantified risk assessment, has been
- questioned by the HSE. Violence, noise, dust, fires are other issues.
- SUBJECTS: CUTS/ DUST/ NOISE/ PRIVATISATION/ RISK ASSESSMENT/
- UNDERGROUND/ VIOLENCE/
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- REF: 9205075
- Substitution of organic solvents. Sorensen, Frode; Petersen,
- Hans. 4pp. --SEP91 Supplier: The Authors, Dept. of Chemical
- Engineering, Building 229, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800
- Lyngby, Denmark.
- COMMENT: Lists possibilities of substitution of organic solvents in
- 62 processes according to branch of industry. Translated from the
- Danish.
- SUBJECTS: SOLVENTS/ SUBSTITUTION/
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- REF: 9205076
- Process-based method for substitution of hazardous chemicals and its
- application to metal degreasing. Sorensen, Frode; Petersen, Hans.
- Pamphlet, 14pp. Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Materials v8 n1
- p69-84. -----91 Supplier: The Authors, Dept. of Chemical Engineering,
- Building 229, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby,
- Denmark.
- COMMENT: Main strategy is to use acqueous alkaline solutions in
- place of organic solvents. Phosphate solutions can be used instead of
- cyanide in electrodegreasing. Degreasing solutions can be
- recirculated reducing environmental problems.
- SUBJECTS: DEGREASING SOLVENTS/ SOLVENTS/ SUBSTITUTION/
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