workplace safety

Disasters

The Piper Alpha Disaster

Piper Alpha stood in the North Sea, around 120 miles north-east of Aberdeen, a vast steel structure rising above cold,…

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Disasters

The Rana Plaza Collapse

In the suburb of Savar, around 24 kilometres north-west of central Dhaka, stood Rana Plaza, an eight-storey concrete structure that…

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History

The Blantyre Mining Disaster

During the Industrial Revolution and in the subsequent years before worker protection laws were put into place, it was a…

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