35th HAZARDS CONFERENCE 2024: THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND WORKERS’ HEALTH AND SAFETY - A DEADLY COMBINATION:

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Head Office Circular: NP/153/24

24^th June 2024

To: The Secretary

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Dear Colleague

35^th HAZARDS CONFERENCE 2024: THE CLIMATE CRISIS AND WORKERS’ HEALTH AND SAFETY - A DEADLY COMBINATION:

30^th AUGUST - 1^st SEPTEMBER AT KEELE UNIVERSITY OR ONLINE

This year’s conference will include sessions on:

o Health and Safety at Work Act at 50 - What is the future?

o Climate and workers’ health and safety - the challenges of extreme weather events and the impact of work activity on the climate

o Making the case for mentally healthy work - workers are being exposed to increasing workloads, health impacting work related stress, violence and bullying and we need to resist not be more resilient

o Bad work injures and kills - collective pressure and safety reps save lives - but the majority of workers are not in trade union organised workplaces, how are we fighting for these workers?

The Hazards Conference has always been one of the biggest conferences for trade union safety reps and activists. It consists of a mixture of plenary sessions, meetings, and a comprehensive workshop programme. Delegates have an opportunity to exchange experience and information with and learn from safety reps from other unions, sectors and jobs across the UK.

There will be a fringe meeting on “fires in buses and other electric vehicles are becoming common place and deadly, what is the answer?” in which RMT will be participating.

You can read a report from the 2023 conference here