Two cases study

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Watch up on Health UNLESS you work at the British Museum and happen to pass through the farthest reaches of the King's Library on your way to or from an office, you probably won't know that a small, two case exhibition of material from Solidarity, the Polish workers' union, is currently on display there. The reason you won't know about it is that Sir Harry Hockway has ruled that the exhibition should not receive any publicity.

SINCE the Health and Safety at Work Act, 1974, which made employers responsible for safety in the workplace, and required the appointment of workplace safety reps from amongst the worktorce, there has been a plethora of booklets offering guidance and theory about workplace hazards. (Compare the review of "Office Workers' Survival Handbook" in Socialist Organiser some weeks ago).

This booklet is largely a guide to the legal maze which will confront the workplace safety rep in the form of Regulations, Codes of Practice, Guidance Notes and the like. It sets out simply and clearly the rights of a safety rep to inspect. the kind of inspections to make and how to keep records. how to cope with a legal inquiry into accidents etc. as well as giving a brief run-down on some of the commoner hazards.

Toxic The booklet is intended to supplement training courses, but is useful in its own right. especially for providing a useful entry into more specialised literature on specitic areas of interest.

One of the advantages of this booklet is that it does recognise the fact that employers may not always be too keen to implement the Health and Safety at