Steven Conway died while working at Diamond Wheels (Dundee) Ltd. There were no safety protocols in place at the premises, no risk assessme...

Socialist Courier previously reported on a mining company’s criminal neglect of safety that caused the lives of 29 workers in New Zealand,...

A sawmill firm has been fined £30,000 after a young worker was injured in a "wholly avoidable" accident. Damian Gawlowski, 20, lo...

Former Scotland internationalist Rory Lamont has lifted the lid on rugby players “cheating” concussion protocols and insisted many well-kno...

The number of people who died at work in Scotland rose last year, an increase driven by fatalities in agriculture and industry, a new re...

Yesterday was Workers Memorial Day when we highlight the bloody toll capitalism inflicts upon us. In New Zealand a coal mining company, Pi...

Government scientific advisers have discovered a almost double the incidence of cancers among people living near Dalgety Bay in Fife, whic...

The father of a Fife miner who was killed at a mine in New Zealand said he was "disappointed and angry" to hear the gas blast was...

Oil companies operating in the North Sea have been fined for oil spills on just seven occasions since 2000, even though 4,123 separate spil...

A few hundred yards from where missionary David Livingstone was born, stood five pits run by William Dixon Ltd. Together they produced ...

Scottish towns and cities had the worst rates for major MoT failures in the UK last year, figures have shown. Motoring groups expressed alar...

Legal experts have raised concerns about a lack of justice over health and safety failures. Only 3% of complaints ever lead to a prosecution...

Long working hours may raise the risk of mental decline and possibly dementia, research suggests The study found that those working more tha...

Two solicitors who took millions of pounds from compensation payouts given to sick miners have been struck off. The Solicitors' Discipli...

Writing in the European Journal of Oncology, Prof Watterson, an expert in occupational health, said "In Scotland more people die from o...

A Canadian airline is removing life vests from all its planes to cut weight and save fuel , in other words , to save money . Canada regula...

"social injustice is killing people on a grand scale...The toxic combination of bad policies, economics, and politics is, in large meas...

Graham Meldrum Memorial Campaign vigil at Glasgow Sheriff Court August 2007 Glasgow Sheriff Court, 17 June The Fatal Accident Inquiry into t...

From the BBC A 30-year-old Toyota worker who collapsed at one of its plants had died of overwork. It emerged that the man had worked 106 ho...

Further to this earlier post that health inequalities between rich and poor have widened since Labour came to office in 1997 , American re...