At the annual Hazards Campaign conference in April about 500 delegates, including trade union health and safety representatives from a wide range of manufacturing and service industries, adopted a charter of demands to the next government. Key demands include: a ban on lindane, PCP, TBTO, organo-phosphates; right of public access to pesticide data; stricter implementation of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations; mandatory penalties for failing to undertake risk assessments; recognition for union safety representatives irrespective of the existence of employer recognition of a trade union; increased resources for enforcement authorities; and a stricter enforcement policy with custodial sentences for negligent employers
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[This article first appeared in Pesticides News No. 32, June 1996, page 19]