Night Shift Lullaby

There are relatively few good songs about work, even though it’s a major part of most people’s lives. This song, by the Magnolia Electric Company, is one of them and probably sums up the experience of many shift workers. Shift work can make it difficult to socialise, affect personal relationships and seriously disrupt family life. Shift work can also have an effect on

Reducing the occupational cancer burden

On Tuesday I was at the Safety and Health Expo at the ExCeL exhibition centre in London Docklands where I was contributing to the BOHS Worker Health Protection Arena. During the afternoon I spoke with Leslie Rushton of Imperial College London on Occupational cancer – what you need to know. Lesley is is a medical