Risks April 1st 2007 reported that UK unions are supporting a global 'zero cancer' campaign targeting workplace cancers. The coalition of unions from around the world claims that and epidemic of occupational cancer claims at least one life every 52 seconds, that amounts to over 600,000 occupational cancer deaths a year. In the UK alone an estimated 50 people a day are dying of work related cancers. It claims however that the tragedy is being ignored both by regulators and employers.
The union Amicus has called upon the HSE to produce an updated estimate of workplace cancer deaths - it says HSE's estimate of 4% of all cancers being caused by work is based on flawed evidence, and the real figure is nearer to 12%.
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http://www.tuc.org.uk/h_and_s/index.cfm?mins=242
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