About us…
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre (GMHC) is a not-for-profit organisation which campaigns lobbies and advises workers on occupational health, safety and welfare issues. GMHC works with trade unions in the workplace at branch, regional and national levels. We produce fact-sheets and information packs, set up and support health and safety campaigns, raise awareness, co-ordinate a network of health and safety representatives in the North West and are supported by a panel of industrial, legal and academic experts.
This service is FREE to all workers – trade union members, safety reps, workers in non-union workplaces, homeworkers, young workers, the families of workers killed at work – and to community groups facing hazards in the Greater Manchester area who campaign locally for better workplace health and safety .
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre is part of a national network of Hazards Centres and other health and safety groups. The Hazards Campaign plans and runs campaigns nationally for safer workplaces. GMHC runs the secretariat for the Hazards Campaign, organises the annual Hazards Conference as well as resourcing and promoting International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) on 28 April every year.
Affiliation
GMHC receive fees for specific occupational health and safety work carried out but we need your support, donations and affiliations to secure the free local services we provide. Your affiliation will help us ensure the Greater Manchester Hazards Centre survives. It will also help to develop our information resources for the benefit of all workers, ex-workers made ill by the work, families of those killed at or by work, and the community generally. You will receive regular updates and a quarterly GMHC Hazardous Times E-Newsletter.
CLICK HERE to download our affiliation form.
North-West TUC Safety Reps Network
For several years the GMHC has been collaborating with the NWTUC to develop and run the NWTUC Safety Reps Network. This network facilitates communication, advice and support between safety reps outside of TUC courses. Please contact GMHC if you are interested.
Asbestos Victims Support Group
GMAVSG operates as a separate charity. It provides confidential, free advice and support to sufferers of asbestos related diseases and their families. GMAVSG can help with:
- Industrial Injury Disablement Benefit
- Government compensation scheme
- Civil compensation claims
- Representation at tribunal appeals
- Completing forms
For further information, please visit www.asbestos-victims-support.org or contact 0161 636 7555 or asbestos.gmavsg@gmail.com. You can also visit the national Asbestos Victims Support Group Forum: www.asbestosforum.org.uk
FACK: Families Against Corporate Killers
A national group which campaigns to stop workers and others being killed in preventable workplace incidents. FACK provides information, advice and support and can direct bereaved families to sources of legal help and emotional support.
For further information, please visit www.fack.org.uk.
Campaigns
Greater Manchester Hazards Centre is part of a national network called the Hazards Campaign which was set up in 1988. It draws together Hazards Centres, Occupational Health Advisory Services, safety reps, Trade Unions, specific safety campaigns, victims support groups and safety activists. Specific campaign groups include; the Construction Safety Campaign, FACK, asbestos victims and RSI support groups and the Hazards Magazine.
The Hazards Campaign works by sharing information and skills. It campaigns on specific issues, acts as a national voice on safety, issues press releases, organises conferences and meetings. The Hazards Campaign establishes national initiatives including; Workers Memorial Day; lobbying MPs, MEPS, the government and statutory bodies like the HSE. The Campaign organises the annual Hazards Conference and holds quarterly meetings which are open to anyone sharing the aims of the campaign. Our collective aims are published in the Hazards Campaign Manifesto – ‘Decent Jobs and Decent Lives’ which are our demands on the Government.
Information on Workers Memorial Day can be found here and information about the Hazards Conference and press releases in previous years at www.hazardscampaign.org.uk or email info@hazardscampaign.org.uk.