Gambia: NEA, UNDP Present Covid-19 Materials to Municipalities
[The Point] National Environment Agency (NEA) through funding from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recently presented fumigation materials to three municipalities to support and enhance their fight against Covid-19. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 18, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
France clamps down on use of weedkiller glyphosate in farming
France's health and environment agency announced restrictions on weedkiller glyphosate in farming, but stopped short of a full ban in... (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
PPE waste from home healthcare workers treating patients with COVID-19: RPS C5, Environment Agency (updated 22nd June 2020)
When NHS England healthcare workers treating patients with (or suspected) COVID-19 (coronavirus) in their own homes can dispose of PPE waste with the householder ' s black bag waste.
22 June 2020 The expiry date has been extended to 30 September 2020. 15 April 2020 First published. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 22, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Aiming high to be there for our members
UNISON’s COVID-19 response fund was set up to provide a safety net for our members during this crisis. Thanks to the generous donations of the 69 UNISON branches listed below, our dedicated charity, There for You, has been able to give emergency grants to over 900 members.
But that need isn’t going away any time soon.
That’s why we’ve set a target of £250,000 for branch donations to the COVID-19 response fund – and we want to reach it by the end of June.
Sincere thanks to the 69 branches who have very kindly donated from their general funds and/or their industrial action funds. Will your branch join those belo...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 16, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: Lucy Shaddock Tags: Article News coronavirus Covid-19 there for you welfare Source Type: news
Cleansing and PPE waste at a healthcare waste management facility: RPS C1, Environment Agency (updated 27th May 2020)
When you can store or treat coronavirus (COVID-19) cleansing and used PPE waste without having codes 15 02 02* or 15 02 03 in your permit.
Updated
27 May 2020 We have extended the expiry date to 30 September 2020. 22 May 2020 This COVID-19 RPS has been updated to include separately collected personal protective equipment (PPE) waste, coded 15 02 03. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - May 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Exposure to ultrafine aerosol particles in homes depends primarily on people themselves
This study was led by the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) commissioned by the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - May 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
PPE waste from home healthcare workers treating patients with COVID-19: RPS C5 - Environment Agency (updated 15th April)
Normally personal protective equipment (PPE) waste from healthcare workers treating patients in their own homes would be: coded as healthcare waste (18 01 03* if infectious, or 18 01 04 if non-infectious) collected separately from the patient ' s home through a courier collection service, or taken back to the relevant NHS England (NHSE) hospital or practice for disposal If they follow the conditions in this COVID-19 regulatory position statement (RPS), healthcare workers treating patients with (or suspected) COVID-19 in their own homes can dispose of waste through the householder ' s normal non-recyclable waste collect...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - April 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
While you ’ re helping the nation, UNISON is working for you
UNISON nationally and regionally is working hard to ensure that the union is supporting members to the best of its ability during the coronavirus crisis. These are extraordinary and unprecedented times – and we are acting accordingly.
Amongst the union’s key aims has been to negotiate around the impact of the pandemic on members at work.
Christina McAnea, assistant general secretary responsible for bargaining, negotiations and equalities said today: “Giving advice and support to our members during this time of crisis has been of paramount importance to our bargaining teams.
“We are well aware that the majority of U...
Source: UNISON Health care news - March 24, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: matheoud Tags: Article News coronavirus pay negotiating and bargaining Source Type: news
One in FIVE Europeans suffer from noise pollution caused by traffic and aircraft
The European Environment Agency said such exposure could be traced to the 12,000 premature deaths and as a contributing factor to cognitive disorders in 12,500 children in Europe. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Fires and floods: maps of Europe predict scale of climate catastrophe
Without urgent action, rising sea levels by end of century could leave cities under waterAseries of detailed maps have laid bare the scale of possible forest fires, floods, droughts and deluges that Europe could face by the end of the century without urgent action to adapt to and confront global heating.An average one-metre rise in sea levels by the end of the century – without any flood prevention action – would mean 90% of the surface of Hull would be under water, according to the European Environment Agency.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - February 10, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Jennifer Rankin in Brussels Tags: Climate change Environment Science European Union World news Flooding Wildfires Natural disasters and extreme weather Source Type: news
France to ban dozens of glyphosate weedkillers amid health risk debate
France's health and environment agency said on Monday it was banning dozens of glyphosate-based weedkillers, most of the volume of such products sold in France, ruling there was insufficient data to exclude health risks. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Regulator acts after potential ‘risk to human health’ at warehouse
Safety steps have been taken at a warehouse unlawfully filled with more than 400 tonnes of NHS clinical waste after the Environment Agency raised concerns over a potential “significant risk to human health”, HSJ has learned. (Source: HSJ)
Source: HSJ - November 28, 2019 Category: UK Health Source Type: news
A vote for public services?
UNISON has welcomed the pledges to improve our public services and make life better for all who use and work in them, contained in the Labour Party manifesto published this week.
They add up to “a powerful package to rebuild the country and help millions whose lives have been ravaged by nine years of austerity,” says general secretary Dave Prentis.
“It commits to restoring the funding snatched from public services by the Tories’ cold-hearted economic policies and gives dedicated public servants the wage rises they’ve been denied for so long.”
As our general secretary says in his latest blog: “This is a manife...
Source: UNISON Health care news - November 22, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: News community education services Energy general election 2019 health care higher education local government police and justice public services water environment and transport Source Type: news
UNISON calls for a general election but demands Labour stays united
Speaking in Liverpool today (Tuesday) on the opening day of the UNISON annual conference, general secretary Dave Prentis said:
“Brexit has unleashed the stench of far right extremism, both on the streets and in workplaces across the country. It’s meant a rise in anger and distrust.
“Public service workers from Europe have had to suffer cheap jibes and racial slurs, and been told to go home. Attitudes we thought had faded long ago are now back with a vengeance, with new faces spouting age-old hatreds.
“Sometimes the fight against bigotry, racism, Islamophobia and anti-Semitism can feel like an uphill struggle. But...
Source: UNISON meat hygiene - June 18, 2019 Category: Food Science Authors: Alison Charlton Tags: News Press release 2019 National Delegate Conference dave prentis general election Labour Party politics Source Type: news
From floods to food banks
Environment Agency worker Sarah Peet. Photo: Marcus Rose
Environment Agency workers who get called out in the middle of the night to protect people and property from floods are having to use food banks to survive from one pay day to another.
They have lost a fifth of their pay, in real terms, since 2009, delegates at UNISON’s water, environment and transport conference in Liverpool heard today.
That’s why they are taking industrial action across England for a decent pay rise, having voted overwhelmingly to reject a below-inflation pay offer off 1.3% in December, only to see the employer impose it
That came as ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 16, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Tony Braisby Tags: Article News 2019 WET Conference Environment environment agency water water environment and transport Source Type: news
