This week the RMT Union held its annual health and safety advisory conference in York. Focused on improving health and safety for those in all…
The International Labour Organization estimates that – each year – around 2.3 million people around the world die as a result of workplace accidents or…
So far most of the details in our database have focused on the accidents that British and Irish railway workers had before 1939. They’ve been…
Around the turn of the twentieth century, the main railway trades unions started complaining about ‘speeding up’: the intensity of work being increased, whether by…
This week’s post comes from a guest contributor, Helen Ford, Manager of the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick – and a staunch…