Nothing is more important than your health, safety and welfare.
Free health and safety advice for workers, trade unionists and safety reps across Greater Manchester and the North West. And the home of the National Hazards Conference.
We are a not-for-profit centre that campaigns, lobbies and advises workers on health, safety and welfare at work. Because nobody should leave work in a worse state than when they arrived.
Nobody has to face it alone.
We bring health and safety reps together from across the North West to share problems and what worked. Whatever is happening at your workplace, someone in the network has probably faced something like it before.
Ask us about your workplace.
Worried about a hazard at work, your rights, or what your employer must do? Call us. Our advice is free for every worker and trade unionist in the North West.
Help for workers and safety reps
Anyone with a worry about safety at work can come to us. We work alongside trade unions, safety reps and families across the region.
Free advice.
Ask us about a hazard at your workplace, your rights, or what your employer must do.
Fact sheets
Plain guides and checklists on asbestos, mental health, accident books and more.
Campaigns
We set up and support campaigns on the dangers at work that others ignore.
Safety reps' network
We bring safety reps together to share problems, solutions and training.
The Hazards Conference
We organise the yearly national conference for safety reps and campaigners at Keele.
Workers' Memorial Day
Every 28 April we remember those killed, injured or made ill by their work.
The 38th National Hazards Conference
The Hazards Conference is the biggest gathering of safety reps and campaigners in the country. For one weekend a year, workers come together to learn, share what works, and plan the next campaigns.
There are plenary sessions, main and fringe meetings, workshops and stalls, and awards for the best health and safety campaigns and for the worst employers.
The 2027 conference will be at Keele University. It runs from 3rd to 5th September 2027. Register now and we will send you everything as soon as bookings open.
Support the centre: become an affiliate
Trade union branches, regions, trades councils and individuals can affiliate, from £5. Affiliates hear about our meetings and events, and keep our advice free for every worker.
Latest news
Hazards Conference 2026: 3 Days in 9 Minutes
A nine-minute film gives a flavour of the 2026 conference, where over 240 safety activists heard more than 40 speakers.
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Action Mesothelioma Day 2026
Patients, carers and campaigners met in Manchester to remember those lost to asbestos and to campaign for those living with it.
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Hazards and 'End Not Defend' make themselves heard at the HSE
Hazards joined unions and campaigners outside the HSE in Liverpool to call for sexual harassment to be treated as a safety issue.
Read moreDates in the Hazards year
The days we organise, support and turn up for, every year. Come and join us.
Workers' Memorial Day
Action Mesothelioma Day
The National Hazards Conference
Stalls and leaflets
Know your rights at work
Free fact sheets to download, print and share with workmates.
Act Now on Asbestos
What asbestos is, who is at risk, and a sixteen-point checklist for safety reps.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on Occupational Mental Health
The scale of the problem, the law, and what unions and employers can do to prevent harm and support people.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on Accident Books
What must go in the accident book, what must also be reported under RIDDOR, and how safety reps and first aid fit in.
Open the fact sheetGet in touch
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre, Unit 2, The Wesley Centre, Royce Road, Manchester M15 5BP.
Advice and general questions
Call us about a health and safety problem at work, or anything else.
0161 884 4229The Hazards Conference
Questions about the conference, bookings and payments.