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Delegates to this year’s health
and safety conference meeting
in Doncaster agreed that for too
long workers in the transport
industries were faced with
working longer hours and more
onerous shifts.
Garry Hassell , Brighton and
Hove called on the union to
start a campaign to reduce
working hours across the
transport sector in order to
protect workers from the
harmful effects of fatigue,
including physical and
psychological illness, and where
applicable to negotiate with
employers to ensure working-
hour limits are not breached.
Delegates also agreed that
RMT should campaign for a
maximum 32-hour week,
without loss of pay.
“The amount of information
we have heard during
conference makes it plain that
we cannot go on as we are.
“Companies are understaffed
and employ a process that gets
the maximum hours for
Fatigue-
LONG HOURS
LIMIT LIFE
2017 RMT health
and safety
conference discusses
the problems of long
working hours