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Health and Safety Commission
Is responsible for health and safety regulation in Great Britain. The Health and Safety Executive and local government are the enforcing authorities who work in support of the Commission. Their mission is to protect people's health and safety by ensuring risks in the changing workplace are properly controlled.
National Patient Safety Agency
Aims to improve the safety and quality of care through reporting, analysing and learning from adverse incidents and 'near misses' involving NHS patients.
British Occupational Health Research Foundation
Their mission is: "Bringing employers and researchers together to produce robust science and evidence based work of practical value whose application will contribute to the right of people at work to be 'healthy, motivated and at work".
The Hazards Campaign
A network of resource centres and campaigners on health and safety at work.
Scottish Hazards Campaign Group
Campaigns for improved worker health and safety throughout Scotland and joins with others internationally to campaign for improved working conditions throughout the world.
UK National Work-Stress Network
Is committed to the eradication of the causes of work-related stress and associated illnesses.
Centre for Corporate Accountability
Provides advice and assistance to those bereaved and injured from work-related activities on how to ensure that the death or injury is subject to adequate criminal investigation and scrutiny by the prosecution bodies; undertakes research on the way the criminal justice system deals with harm resulting from corporate activities; presses for changes in law and practice in the area of law enforcement and corporate accountability.
Families against corporate killers (fack)
A national campaigning network which will campaign to stop workers and others being killed in preventable incidents and will direct bereaved families to sources of legal help and emotional support.
UK Health and Safety Consultants
Based in Kent, suppling a full range ofhealth and safety services across the UK.
Mobile phone safety
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
See also the Patient UK list of links to sites dealing with accident and injury prevention.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.
- Non-UK disease / illness sites
- Non-UK self-help / support group sites
More detailed medical information
The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.
- PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
- Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
- Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
- Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
- Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
- Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.
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National Accident Helpline Ltd
National Patient Safety Agency
RoadPeace
RoSPA - Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents
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