Resources and LInks

Facebook:

• Eliminating Toxic Substances at Work

• Equality and Diversity GMHC

• Families Against Corporate Killers (FACK)

• Greater Manchester Hazards Centre - across the North West

• Hazards campaign online recordings and podcasts

• Training safe

• TUCAN

• We Didn’t Vote to Die at Work-Hazards Campaign

Twitter:

@hazardscampaign

@centregreater

and @Jnewsham and @HildaPalmer

Websites:

• Hazards Campaign -is a UK-wide network of resource centres and campaigners and supports those organising and campaigning for justice and safety at work.

• Hazards Magazine- is an independent, union-friendly magazine and provides the information and resources on health and safety issues to make the union job easier.

• Alliance for Cancer Prevention - to reduce preventable cancer incidence by calling for recognition of environmental and occupational risk factors

• Cancer Prevention and Education Society - to reduce the incidence of cancer and other diseases

• ChemTrust - to prevent man-made chemicals from causing long term damage to wildlife and humans

Chem Trust along with 26 NGOs produced 12 key asks, which highlight a range of actions that must be implemented in the new Chemicals Strategy in order to provide strong protection from hazardous chemicals for UK people, wildlife and the environment.

Toxic-free for EU, a brand-new weekly briefing on EU politics and chemical regulatory affairs

• Breast Cancer UK - to improve survival rates and quality of life for those impacted by breast cancer through better prevention, early detection, treatment and cure

• Effects of Flame Retardants on health: https://www.eco-chair.co.uk/about-3

• Green Alliance - to ensure that the political priorities of the United Kingdom are determined within an ecological perspective

• Greener Jobs Alliance - to promote skills training and job creation to meet the needs of Britain’s rapidly growing low carbon sectors and to green the whole economy. See newsletter for up to date news.

• Fidra - To achieve pragmatic solutions to environmental issues using the best available science working in collaboration with governments, industry and the public

• WEN - Womens Environmental Network - to achieve equality, justice and joy at the point where gender and environmental issues meet

Fact sheets

• Stop Deadly Exposure

• TUCAN Charter

• TUCAN poster1

• TUCAN poster2

Other useful information:

• FBU Decon Campaign

• Hazards at Work 6th Edition | TUC Chapter on Chemicals and Dust and Occupational Cancer

• Improving ventilation - Cleaning the air at work

• Research papers

Useful global information in researching products, chemicals and other hazardous substances:

• REACH - Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulation - Registered Substances Factsheets -

• Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is a policy framework to promote chemical safety around the world -

• EEB is the largest and most inclusive European network of environmental citizens’ group -

• IPEN is a global network forging a healthier world where people and the environment are no longer harmed by the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals -

• OECD toolbox - a software application intended to the use of governments, chemical industry and other stakeholders in filling gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. -

Posters

• Cancers and their work causes

For more information, and for support please contact:

Janet Newsham: Coordinator of Greater Manchester Hazards Centre

janet@gmhazards.org.uk or 07734317158

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