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Free guides and checklists for workers and safety reps. Download them, print them and share them with workmates.
Act Now leaflets
Short guides for workers and safety reps on the commonest problems at work. Print them and pass them round.
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 your rights as a safety rep
What a union safety rep can do, what the employer must provide, and how to use those rights well.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on heat at work
What the law says about hot workplaces, and the questions safety reps can ask when it gets too hot.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on aches and strains at work
How to prevent back pain and joint, neck and arm problems, among the commonest causes of work-related ill health.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on dust and cancer at work
Silica, wood dust and diesel fumes can cause cancer and lung disease; the questions safety reps can ask to keep them under control.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on menopause at work
What the law says about menopause at work, and what safety reps can ask employers to do.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on sexual harassment at work
Employers' new legal duty to prevent it, and the questions safety reps can ask.
Open the fact sheetPDFAct Now on violence and abuse at work
What employers must do about threats, abuse and attacks, and the questions safety reps can ask.
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 sheetCampaign papers and guidance
What Hazards has told the government, and useful guidance from others.
The North West Long COVID-19 Charter
What unions, safety reps and workers need to know about Long COVID: the law, claims, support, checklists, adjustments and protection for whistleblowers.
Open the pagePDFClimate risks and air quality
An education pack on safety routes to tackling climate risks and air quality, with practical steps for safety reps.
Open the fact sheetPDFRIDDOR: the 2026 consultation
What the injury, disease and dangerous occurrence reporting rules are, and the Hazards response to the 2026 consultation.
Open the fact sheetPDFRIDDOR: the Hazards submission to HSE
A summary of what Hazards told HSE in its 2026 consultation on the rules for reporting injuries, diseases and dangerous events.
Open the fact sheetPDFRIDDOR 2026: webinar crib sheet
The main points from the Hazards webinar on the 2026 reporting rules, on one sheet.
Open the fact sheetPDFWork-related suicide: open letter to HSE
The case for making work-related suicide reportable, in a joint letter from Hazards, unions, academics and charities.
Open the fact sheetPDFMake work-related suicide reportable
Slides from Families Against Corporate Killers on why HSE should make work-related suicide reportable under RIDDOR.
Open the fact sheetPDFViolence at work
The Hazards position on violence at work.
Open the fact sheetPDFDecent Jobs, Decent Lives: a manifesto to protect all workers
The Hazards Campaign’s minimum health and safety standards for every worker, from regulation and enforcement to prevention and a say at work.
Open the fact sheetPDFInfection risks to new and expectant mothers at work
HSE guidance on protecting new and expectant mothers from infection at work, and what their employer can do to prevent the risks.
Open the fact sheetPDFViolence in schools and colleges: Scottish Government guidance
How councils and schools should assess and manage violent, aggressive or dangerous behaviour, published in 2025.
Open the fact sheetThe Whole Story archive
Every year Hazards estimates the deaths and illness caused by work that the official HSE figures leave out. Here is every edition we hold.
The Whole Story 2026 (summary)
A short summary of this year’s estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2025
The yearly estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work that the official figures leave out.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2024
The 2024 estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2023
The 2023 estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2022
The 2022 estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2021
The 2021 estimate, published by the Hazards Campaign.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story, August 2018
The Hazards Campaign’s edition from August 2018.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2018
The 2018 estimate of the deaths and illness caused by work.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2017
Hazards figures for 2016 to 2017.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2016
Hazards figures for 2015 to 2016.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2015
Hazards figures for 2014 to 2015.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2014
Hazards figures for 2013 to 2014.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2013
Hazards figures for 2012 to 2013.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2012
Hazards figures, July 2012.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2011
Hazards figures, November 2011.
Open the fact sheetPDFThe Whole Story 2008
The first edition kept online.
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