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Papers by Rory O'Neill
Institute of Employment Rights Journal, 2021
Brexit is seen by many in the UK government and the Conservative Party as an opportunity to furth... more Brexit is seen by many in the UK government and the Conservative Party as an opportunity to further undermine workers’ rights and intensify the ‘race to the bottom’ under the guise of improving the UK’s global competitiveness. It looks very likely that workplace health and safety standards in particular will come under renewed attack. At the same time, the advent of new trade agreements with other states and trading blocs will mean that UK compliance with benchmark international standards on regulation generally, and worker health and safety in particular, will come under more intense scrutiny. The ILO is the single most important organisation charged with developing global legal standards for workplace rights. Historically, the UK government has deliberately avoided formal agreement with ILO health and safety standards. It has only ratified 6 of the 36 ‘up-to-date’ and interim health and safety Conventions and Protocols. This puts it on par with the following countries that have al...
Journal of Public Health Policy, 2003
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2004
Alan Dalton, the veteran [U.K.] safety and environmental campaigner and under-their-skin irritant... more Alan Dalton, the veteran [U.K.] safety and environmental campaigner and under-their-skin irritant to dangerous industries and their friends, has died aged 57. Trained as a chemist, Dalton initially worked in the pharmaceutical industry, but soon decided health was not something made, bottled and sold, but was something won by informed and organised struggle. He paid a price for promoting this approach. Over the years Dalton was sued and bankrupted for attacking the asbestos industry, "greylisted" by the government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for exposing its shortcomings and secrecy and fired from the board of the Environment Agency for failing to embrace a cosy but unhealthy consensus. His transformation from chemist to campaigner began early. By the late 1960s Dalton was the workplace safety and environmental campaigner for the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS). While there, he was one of a small group behind a new grassroots safety magazine, Hazards Bulletin, created as unions for the first time were given legal rights to participate in workplace safety. Dalton knew that the new generation of union safety reps with legal rights also needed union arguments and support to convert rights into influence. It was part of a grassroots political awakening that was cautious of the "information is power" mantra that spurred the emerging global environmental and workplace movement's "right-to-know" campaigns. Instead, Dalton subscribed to a more political philosophy. As Canadian labour academic Bob Sass described it at the time: "Information isn't power. Information is information. Power is power."
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999
The goal of this investigation was to evaluate histologically and histometrically the healing pro... more The goal of this investigation was to evaluate histologically and histometrically the healing process in dehiscence-type defects treated by enamel matrix derivative (EMD). Five adult female beagle dogs were used. Buccal osseous dehiscences were surgically created on the maxillary canines and the second and fourth premolars. Thirty defect sites were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups (15 defect sites for each group). The treatment group received EMD application, while the control groups received no EMD. After 4 months of healing, the dogs were sacrificed and tissue blocks were prepared. Histometric parameters were employed to evaluate the type of periodontal tissues that formed in the defects. All created dehiscence defects in the test sites treated by EMD had formed functional connective tissue fibers inserted into regenerated cellular cementum. The mean amount of apicocoronal regenerated cementum was 3.74 +/- 0.43 mm in EMD- treated sites, whereas the control sites h...
"There can be few more challenging issues confronting a union rep than the suicide of a work... more "There can be few more challenging issues confronting a union rep than the suicide of a work colleague. But suicide affects people at work, which makes it a union issue. Hazards editor Rory O'Neill says this is why the TUC has produced a guide to help reps deal better with suicide risks, prevention and the aftermath of a tragedy at work."
Correspondence chapter carefully examines, among other factors, the role of the house dust mite a... more Correspondence chapter carefully examines, among other factors, the role of the house dust mite and the increased use of fl2 agonists as potential causes.
Objectives: This research was conducted to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder... more Objectives: This research was conducted to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among dental students, general dental practitioners (GDPs) and dental specialists in Kuwait. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was distributed to dental students in Kuwait University, GDPs and dental specialists working in government or private sectors in Kuwait. The questionnaire was distributed in a hard copy version and a web-based version. A modified version of the Standardized Nordic Questionnaire was used to allow the screening of musculoskeletal disorders in nine different body regions (neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back, elbows, low back, wrist/hands, hips/thighs, knees and ankles/feet). Results: This cross sectional study included 403 subjects. A total 88% responded to the hard copy version and 12% to the web-based version of the questionnaire. Completed questionnaires were collected from 397 subjects. Responses composed of dental ...
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and …, 2006
The International Labour Office (ILO) is to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world's big... more The International Labour Office (ILO) is to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world's biggest ever industrial killer. The landmark decision came with the adoption of a resolution on 14 June 2006 at the ILO conference in Geneva and followed a high level union ...
Hazards magazine, 2018
FUMING - a fatal mixture of a lack of the right intelligence and lack of give-a-damn topped up wi... more FUMING - a fatal mixture of a lack of the right intelligence and lack of give-a-damn topped up with a dose of diesel industry foul play is condemning thousands of workers each year to an early death.
Workers should not be disposable. And work should not be a spirit-sapping, body-breaking grind. H... more Workers should not be disposable. And work should not be a spirit-sapping, body-breaking grind. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill warns bad jobs are driving us over the edge and says it is time to turn and fight for basic decency, security and rights at work....
Insecure employment’ covers a lot of sins – fear of losing your ostensibly ‘permanent’ job, inability to find permanent work, scratching a living from multiple jobs or working on short-hours or zero hour contracts, at the whim of someone who claims not to be your employer. They all have one thing in common – they are far more likely to damage your health than secure, permanent work.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
Governmental efforts to monitor and regulate occupational health and safety hazards in the United... more Governmental efforts to monitor and regulate occupational health and safety hazards in the United Kingdom have been seriously etiolated by recent developments emanating from the HSC and the HSE that gut already-inadequate strategies in ways that favor industry prerogatives over workers, and by governmental inattention.
American journal of industrial medicine, 1999
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2007
The U.K. authorities are failing to acknowledge or deal effectively with an epidemic of work-rela... more The U.K. authorities are failing to acknowledge or deal effectively with an epidemic of work-related cancers. The government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) underestimates the exposed population, the risks faced as a result of those exposures, and the potential for prevention. The HSE fails to acknowledge the social inequality in occupational cancer risk, which is concentrated in manual workers and lower employment grades, or the greater likelihood these groups will experience multiple exposures to work-related carcinogens. It continues to neglect the largely uninvestigated and unprioritized risk to women and currently has neither a requirement nor a strategy for reducing the numbers and volumes of cancer-causing substances, processes, and environments at work. The result is that the U.K. faces at least 20,000 and possibly in excess of 40,000 new cases of work-related cancer every year, leading to thousands of deaths and an annual cost to the economy of between pounds 29.5bn and pounds 59bn. This paper outlines flaws in the HSE's approach and makes recommendations to address effectively the U.K.'s occupational cancer crisis.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) has received support from the World Health Or... more The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) has received support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Office (ILO) to publish the African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety. The African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety should not be a medium for industry propaganda, or the source of misinformation among the workers of Africa. Instead, FIOH should provide the same level of scientific information in Africa that it does in Finland and other developed countries.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
1. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2009 Oct-Dec;15(4):419-20. ... Physician expelled from Indian Asso... more 1. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2009 Oct-Dec;15(4):419-20. ... Physician expelled from Indian Association of Occupational Health after critique. ... Joshi TK, Bailar JC 3rd, Craner J, Davis D, Ehrlich R, Franco G, Frank AL, Huff J, LaDou J, Lanphear B, London L, Melnick RL, O' ...
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2013
... Andrew Watterson, Thomas Gorman, Rory O'Neill Occupational and Environmenlal Health Rese... more ... Andrew Watterson, Thomas Gorman, Rory O'Neill Occupational and Environmenlal Health Research Group, University of Sttling, Scotland, Great ... Sono state pro-poste alcune soluzioni che potrebbero essere adot-tate in Scozia immediatamente, e che ricolloche-rebbero i ...
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999
... UK; Glasgow University and Scottish H&S Network, Leicester, LE79SU, UK AJIM12 10.1002/(SI... more ... UK; Glasgow University and Scottish H&S Network, Leicester, LE79SU, UK AJIM12 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199911)36:5<586::AID-AJIM12>3.0.CO;2-9 November 1999 1999 Andrew Watterson, Martin Silberschmidt, Simon Pickvance, Rory O'Neill, Peter Kirby, Jim Brophy ...
Institute of Employment Rights Journal, 2021
Brexit is seen by many in the UK government and the Conservative Party as an opportunity to furth... more Brexit is seen by many in the UK government and the Conservative Party as an opportunity to further undermine workers’ rights and intensify the ‘race to the bottom’ under the guise of improving the UK’s global competitiveness. It looks very likely that workplace health and safety standards in particular will come under renewed attack. At the same time, the advent of new trade agreements with other states and trading blocs will mean that UK compliance with benchmark international standards on regulation generally, and worker health and safety in particular, will come under more intense scrutiny. The ILO is the single most important organisation charged with developing global legal standards for workplace rights. Historically, the UK government has deliberately avoided formal agreement with ILO health and safety standards. It has only ratified 6 of the 36 ‘up-to-date’ and interim health and safety Conventions and Protocols. This puts it on par with the following countries that have al...
Journal of Public Health Policy, 2003
New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2004
Alan Dalton, the veteran [U.K.] safety and environmental campaigner and under-their-skin irritant... more Alan Dalton, the veteran [U.K.] safety and environmental campaigner and under-their-skin irritant to dangerous industries and their friends, has died aged 57. Trained as a chemist, Dalton initially worked in the pharmaceutical industry, but soon decided health was not something made, bottled and sold, but was something won by informed and organised struggle. He paid a price for promoting this approach. Over the years Dalton was sued and bankrupted for attacking the asbestos industry, "greylisted" by the government's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) for exposing its shortcomings and secrecy and fired from the board of the Environment Agency for failing to embrace a cosy but unhealthy consensus. His transformation from chemist to campaigner began early. By the late 1960s Dalton was the workplace safety and environmental campaigner for the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science (BSSRS). While there, he was one of a small group behind a new grassroots safety magazine, Hazards Bulletin, created as unions for the first time were given legal rights to participate in workplace safety. Dalton knew that the new generation of union safety reps with legal rights also needed union arguments and support to convert rights into influence. It was part of a grassroots political awakening that was cautious of the "information is power" mantra that spurred the emerging global environmental and workplace movement's "right-to-know" campaigns. Instead, Dalton subscribed to a more political philosophy. As Canadian labour academic Bob Sass described it at the time: "Information isn't power. Information is information. Power is power."
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999
The goal of this investigation was to evaluate histologically and histometrically the healing pro... more The goal of this investigation was to evaluate histologically and histometrically the healing process in dehiscence-type defects treated by enamel matrix derivative (EMD). Five adult female beagle dogs were used. Buccal osseous dehiscences were surgically created on the maxillary canines and the second and fourth premolars. Thirty defect sites were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups (15 defect sites for each group). The treatment group received EMD application, while the control groups received no EMD. After 4 months of healing, the dogs were sacrificed and tissue blocks were prepared. Histometric parameters were employed to evaluate the type of periodontal tissues that formed in the defects. All created dehiscence defects in the test sites treated by EMD had formed functional connective tissue fibers inserted into regenerated cellular cementum. The mean amount of apicocoronal regenerated cementum was 3.74 +/- 0.43 mm in EMD- treated sites, whereas the control sites h...
"There can be few more challenging issues confronting a union rep than the suicide of a work... more "There can be few more challenging issues confronting a union rep than the suicide of a work colleague. But suicide affects people at work, which makes it a union issue. Hazards editor Rory O'Neill says this is why the TUC has produced a guide to help reps deal better with suicide risks, prevention and the aftermath of a tragedy at work."
Correspondence chapter carefully examines, among other factors, the role of the house dust mite a... more Correspondence chapter carefully examines, among other factors, the role of the house dust mite and the increased use of fl2 agonists as potential causes.
Objectives: This research was conducted to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorder... more Objectives: This research was conducted to investigate the prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) among dental students, general dental practitioners (GDPs) and dental specialists in Kuwait. Material and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, a questionnaire was distributed to dental students in Kuwait University, GDPs and dental specialists working in government or private sectors in Kuwait. The questionnaire was distributed in a hard copy version and a web-based version. A modified version of the Standardized Nordic Questionnaire was used to allow the screening of musculoskeletal disorders in nine different body regions (neck, shoulders, upper back, lower back, elbows, low back, wrist/hands, hips/thighs, knees and ankles/feet). Results: This cross sectional study included 403 subjects. A total 88% responded to the hard copy version and 12% to the web-based version of the questionnaire. Completed questionnaires were collected from 397 subjects. Responses composed of dental ...
NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and …, 2006
The International Labour Office (ILO) is to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world's big... more The International Labour Office (ILO) is to pursue a global ban on asbestos, the world's biggest ever industrial killer. The landmark decision came with the adoption of a resolution on 14 June 2006 at the ILO conference in Geneva and followed a high level union ...
Hazards magazine, 2018
FUMING - a fatal mixture of a lack of the right intelligence and lack of give-a-damn topped up wi... more FUMING - a fatal mixture of a lack of the right intelligence and lack of give-a-damn topped up with a dose of diesel industry foul play is condemning thousands of workers each year to an early death.
Workers should not be disposable. And work should not be a spirit-sapping, body-breaking grind. H... more Workers should not be disposable. And work should not be a spirit-sapping, body-breaking grind. Hazards editor Rory O’Neill warns bad jobs are driving us over the edge and says it is time to turn and fight for basic decency, security and rights at work....
Insecure employment’ covers a lot of sins – fear of losing your ostensibly ‘permanent’ job, inability to find permanent work, scratching a living from multiple jobs or working on short-hours or zero hour contracts, at the whim of someone who claims not to be your employer. They all have one thing in common – they are far more likely to damage your health than secure, permanent work.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
Governmental efforts to monitor and regulate occupational health and safety hazards in the United... more Governmental efforts to monitor and regulate occupational health and safety hazards in the United Kingdom have been seriously etiolated by recent developments emanating from the HSC and the HSE that gut already-inadequate strategies in ways that favor industry prerogatives over workers, and by governmental inattention.
American journal of industrial medicine, 1999
International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2007
The U.K. authorities are failing to acknowledge or deal effectively with an epidemic of work-rela... more The U.K. authorities are failing to acknowledge or deal effectively with an epidemic of work-related cancers. The government&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) underestimates the exposed population, the risks faced as a result of those exposures, and the potential for prevention. The HSE fails to acknowledge the social inequality in occupational cancer risk, which is concentrated in manual workers and lower employment grades, or the greater likelihood these groups will experience multiple exposures to work-related carcinogens. It continues to neglect the largely uninvestigated and unprioritized risk to women and currently has neither a requirement nor a strategy for reducing the numbers and volumes of cancer-causing substances, processes, and environments at work. The result is that the U.K. faces at least 20,000 and possibly in excess of 40,000 new cases of work-related cancer every year, leading to thousands of deaths and an annual cost to the economy of between pounds 29.5bn and pounds 59bn. This paper outlines flaws in the HSE&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s approach and makes recommendations to address effectively the U.K.&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;#39;s occupational cancer crisis.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) has received support from the World Health Or... more The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) has received support from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labor Office (ILO) to publish the African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety. The African Newsletter on Occupational Health and Safety should not be a medium for industry propaganda, or the source of misinformation among the workers of Africa. Instead, FIOH should provide the same level of scientific information in Africa that it does in Finland and other developed countries.
International journal of occupational and environmental health
1. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2009 Oct-Dec;15(4):419-20. ... Physician expelled from Indian Asso... more 1. Int J Occup Environ Health. 2009 Oct-Dec;15(4):419-20. ... Physician expelled from Indian Association of Occupational Health after critique. ... Joshi TK, Bailar JC 3rd, Craner J, Davis D, Ehrlich R, Franco G, Frank AL, Huff J, LaDou J, Lanphear B, London L, Melnick RL, O' ...
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health, 2013
... Andrew Watterson, Thomas Gorman, Rory O'Neill Occupational and Environmenlal Health Rese... more ... Andrew Watterson, Thomas Gorman, Rory O'Neill Occupational and Environmenlal Health Research Group, University of Sttling, Scotland, Great ... Sono state pro-poste alcune soluzioni che potrebbero essere adot-tate in Scozia immediatamente, e che ricolloche-rebbero i ...
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 1999
... UK; Glasgow University and Scottish H&S Network, Leicester, LE79SU, UK AJIM12 10.1002/(SI... more ... UK; Glasgow University and Scottish H&S Network, Leicester, LE79SU, UK AJIM12 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199911)36:5<586::AID-AJIM12>3.0.CO;2-9 November 1999 1999 Andrew Watterson, Martin Silberschmidt, Simon Pickvance, Rory O'Neill, Peter Kirby, Jim Brophy ...