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Risks 99 - 29 March 2003

This week: Lobby MPs over safety laws: corporate killing and safety fines are in the Commons this week! * building union to appoint roving safety reps – they could be you! * new TUC courses on passive smoking * TUC backs new duty on companies to have safety directors * Resources for Workers' Memorial Day: what to say * GMB is calling time on corporate crime * unions talking health and safety * Euroweek good practice awards * keep safety at the Centre * NUJ condemns killing of ITN reporter * report reveals extent of classroom abuse * baker awarded asthma dough * GMB campaign at the sharp end * TUC aims to keep asbestos to a minimum * Centre welcomes improved death investigations * HSE welcomes safety fines after work death * violence against health workers on the increase * manufacturing employers call for full-scale insurance review * more backing for toilet breaks – this time it's personnel * new guidance to help pregnant women at work * four confined space deaths in four weeks * Australia: Royal Commission condemned as a union witch hunt * China: blast kills 60 as fleeing miners are forced back into shaft * Egypt: nerve poison pesticide risks worse than thought * USA: smoking bans good for smokers too, says expert * USA: NY factory fire site named an historic monument
29.3.2003

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