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Shelly Asquith is Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer in the TUC Organisation, Skills and Services Department.
Nobody should die at work – but the government’s refusal to remove asbestos is killing more than five thousand people a year. On International Workers’ Memorial Day, we should remember them by fighting for a system that values workers more than profits.
This week’s heatwave will make work nasty at best and fatal at worst, especially for people in physical or outdoor jobs. We need a maximum working temperature in law to stop people facing conditions like this.