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Campaign information Worker's Memorial Day, Monday 28 April 2008
Events in Scotland Clydebank : Saturday, 26 April, 12 noon, Commemoration at Clydebank Plaza. Speakers include Ian Tasker, STUC Assistant Secretary Dumfries: Monday, 28 April, 2.00pm, Dumfries TUC are planting a redwood tree in Castledykes Park, Dumfries Dundee : Friday, 25 April, 12.30 pm, City Chambers: Annual Memorial Day lecture on the theme 'Equality for all, Creating an Inclusive Scotland' by Mary Senior, STUC Assistant Secretary Edinburgh : Monday, 28 April, 12 noon, ceremony at Memorial Tree in Princes Street Gardens. Speakers: Louise Adamson, Families Against Corporate Killers, Eurig Scandrett, International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal. Music from Protest in Harmony, Edinburgh's radical singing group. For invitation, Click Here Fife : Monday, 28 April, 11.00am, Memorial Service in Beveridge Park, Kircaldy Glasgow : Monday, 28 April, 1.00pm, Commemoration in George Square. Speakers: Karen Thompson, Families Against Corporate Killers, Greenock : Monday, 28 April, 11.00 am, Commemoration at Workers Statue in Clyde Square North Lanarkshire : Monday, 28 April, 12 noon, Unveiling of North Lanarkshire Workers Memorial, Summerlee Heritage Park, Coatbridge. Speakers include: Elaine Smith, MSP, Dorothy Wright, Families Against Corporate Killing, and Grahame Smith, STUC General Secretary Midlothian : Monday, 28 April, 12.30pm, Commemoration at the Memorial in George V Park, Bonnyrigg, Midlothian For invitation, CLICK HERE West Lothian : Monday, 28 April, 9.30am for 10.00 am start, Bathgate Sports Centre, Seminar on Corporate Manslaughter Bill and other H&S issues. Speakers include: Dave Whyte, Liverpool University, (Cllr)Danny Carrigan, HSC **************************************************
7th Annual SCOTTISH HAZARDS CONFERENCE Recommendations from conference coming soon. ***********************************************
Legal Remedies Seminar, 30 March 2007 The Seminar on Legal Remedies held by Scottish Hazards in March of this year was well attended. Feedback from delegates was very positive. The Seminar was taken for the Campaign by Frank Maguire from Thompsons Solicitors. CLICK HERE for a copy of his paper. **********************************
Occupational Health, Safety and Environment Practices of BP At its meeting in May of this year, Scottish Hazards discussed the occupational health, safety and environmental practices of BP.
CLICK HERE and HERE for information provided by Mark Lyon, senior union health and safety representative at Grangemouth. CLICK HERE for one family's tragic story Some other sources of information
www.hazards.org Hazards Magazine (search for BP) www.scottishhazards.co.uk
Scottish Hazards Campaign http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/SP/STAGING/local_assets/assets/pdfs/Baker_panel_report.pdf Baker Report - BP US Refineries Independent Safety Review Panel http://www.csb.gov/completed_investigations/docs/CSBFinalReportBP.pdf US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board Investigation Report Refinery Explosion and Fire *********************************** Worker's Memorial Day, Saturday 28 April 2007
International Workers Memorial Day: Remember the dead; fight for the living. The global union campaign day for safer, healthier, better work. For further information, pictures, posters, information from around the world, see Hazards Magazine http://www.hazards.org/wmd/index.htm For information on what is happening in England and Wales, see http://www.hazardscampaign.org.uk/ Events that took place in Scotland In Aberdeen: 10.00 am coach leaves Marischal College for Persley Memorial Gardens for commemoration; 11.00 am Coach departs for Rubislaw gardens ; 11.30 am March towards Union Street gathering at Castlegate for speeches For information about events in Edinburgh, CLICK HERE For information about events in Fife CLICK HERE For information about events in West Lothian CLICK HERE for details of the ceremony and and HERE for details of the seminar. Both are being held at Bathgate Sports Park, Linlithgow Road, Bathgate, West Lothian In Dumfries and Galloway the Trades Council has organised a May Day March for 28 April which will include marking Workers Memorial Day. March and speakers from Burns Statue to the Fountain, High Street, Dumfries, 12 pm. For information about events in Dunbartsonshire, CLICK HERE In Dundee there will be a commemoration at the Workers Memorial Tree, Riverside Drive, adjacent to Discovery Point In Glasgow there will be a Commemoration at the Burns Memorial, George Square, Glasgow, 1pm In Paisley there will be a commemoration - Commemoration Memorial Plaque, Abbey Grounds Paisley, 12 noon The following Councils will lower their flags to half mast on the 28th: Clackmananshire, Edinburgh, East Aryshire, Falkirk, Fife, Inverclyde, North Lanarkshire, Perth and Kinross, South Lanarkshire, West Dumbartonshire, West Lothian If an event is taking place in your area, please let us know so that we can include information about it here.
*********************************** DRC and HSC joint statement on H&S management and disability in the workplace. "The Disability Rights Commission and the Health and Safety Commission have agreed a joint statement on the overarching principles of health and safety management and disability in the workplace. It is intended to promote a positive and sensible approach to risk management, encouraging the inclusion of disabled people in the workplace. The Disability Rights Commission and Health and Safety Executive are developing practical guidance on health and safety risk assessment and disability at work. Publication is scheduled for autumn 2007." To see the statement, CLICK HERE ***********************************
PREVIOUS SCOTTISH HAZARDS CONFERENCES 6th Annual SCOTTISH HAZARDS CONFERENCE The Scottish Hazards Campaign would like to thank the Awards for All for the generous
Conference Speakers: Dr Thora Brendstrup, an occupational physician who works with trade unions in Denmark. She will be speaking on behalf of the European Work Hazards Network and telling delegates about joint work being carried out between Danish and Baltic States construction unions To see Thora's slides, CLICK HERE Margaret Burns, a member of the Health and Safety Commission and Chair of the Scottish Partnership on H&S Steering Group Tommy Gorman, a campaigner on asbestos victims rights and other OH&S issues and a member of the Stirling University Occupational and Environmental Health Research Group, who will speak about occupational cancer and what we can learn from the history of asbestos related disease. To see Tommy's slides, CLICK HERE Members of FACK – Families Against Corporate Killing (relatives of people who have died through work who have joined together to campaign to stop other workers being killed in preventable incidents) For further information about FACK, see the website www.fack.org.uk Also see the Centre for Corporate Accountability at http://www.corporateaccountability.org/ Conference Workshops Migrant Workers Young Workers Cancer and Work for further information see http://www.nomorebreastcancer.org.uk/ad1.html Organising for H&S Disability Stress Occupational Health Services Self Regulation **************** 2005 SCOTTISH HAZARDS CONFERENCE
Last year's Scottish Hazards Conference saw a big increase in delegate numbers. 120 occupational health and safety activists came together in Falkirk to share experience and expertise and to debate the way forward for improved workplace health in Scotland. See the plenary presentation slides: Simon Pickvance, Sheffield Occupational Health Advisory Service Click here Stewart Campbell, Scottish Director, HSE Click here See information used in Workshop Sessions Stress Click here and here The role of a H&S Rep Click here and here Violence Click here See also a report of the Protecting Women Workers Serving the Public Conference held on 7 October 2005 Click here Disability Click here Agency Workers Click here For more pictures, see Pictures page
*********************************** Other Campaign Activity Scottish Hazards Campaign Group submission to the Department of Work and
Pensions House of Commons Select Committee inquiry into the work of the HSE and
HSC - CLICK HERE Scottish Hazards Campaign Group submission to the Scottish Expert Group on
Corporate Homicide - CLICK HERE ICL/Stockline Support Group petition for public inquiry - CLICK HERE This calls for a public inquiry into the Maryhill ICL/Stockline factory
explosion on May 11th 2004 when, tragically, nine people lost their lives and
more than 40 were seriously injured. Please copy and circulate it as
widely as possible.
International Workers Memorial Day: Remember the dead; fight for the living. The global union campaign day for safer, healthier, better work. For further information, pictures, posters, information from around the world, see Hazards Magazine http://www.hazards.org/wmd/index.htm
Monday, 28 April, Service at memorial tree adjacent to Discovery Quay
Monday, 28 April, 12 noon for 12.30-2.00pm, Seminar on Corporate Manslaughter Bill and Health and Safety in Fife Council
Speakers include: Thompson's Solicitors, Andy Stark, TUC Studies Tutor, Caroline Herschel, Corporate Services, Fife; Unison
Cllr Stephen Purcell, Leader, Glasgow City Council, Dave Moxham, STUC Deputy General Secretary, Sarah Jones, Scottish Government and PCS member, Frank Maguire, Thompson's Solicitors
12.00 noon Commemoration at the Workers Memorial in the Sports Park. Speakers include current STUC Vice President, Fiona Farmer, Cllr Peter Johnston, Leader of WL Council, Jim Dickson, Deputy Provost, WL Council For invitation, Click Here
held on 15 November 2007
Thursday, 16 November, 10am -4.30pm
STUC, Glasgow
grant which made it possible for us to expand the scope and reach of the 2006 Conference.
and a recent STUC press release at http://www.stuc.org.uk/press-releases/302/stuc-takes-corporate-killing-fight-to-westminster
information to follow
information to follow
for conference handout, CLICK HERE
for more detailed slides, CLICK HERE, HERE and HERE
for information on cancer CLICK HERE and HERE
and Hazards Magazine http://www.hazards.org/
To see workshop slides, CLICK HERE
for further information, see below.
To see workshop information, CLICK HERE
To see workshop information, CLICK HERE and HERE
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