Paul Jones

  • Blood pressure expert supports hospital mercury ban

    Blood pressure expert supports hospital mercury banDevelopments toward safer working environments for hospital workers exposed to mercury received a boost late last year. International medical opposition to phasing out

  • Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazard

    Nurses' union breaks silence on mercury hazardThe June issue of the Australian Nursing Federation's journal, the Australian Nursing Journal, (carries a full page article by Dianne Lacroix titled "The danger of mercury

  • Mercury spill at hospitals covered up by unions

    Mercury spill at hospitals covered up by unionsBRISBANE — Reports last year in Green Left Weekly of mercury hazards to workers at the Royal Brisbane Hospital, are confirmed by a state government report submitted to the

  • Mercury danger continues at hospital

    Mercury danger continues at hospitalBRISBANE — Despite promises from Royal Brisbane Hospital, mercury spillage dangers there continue, staff have told Green Left Weekly. In July the Division of Workplace Heath and

  • Toxic vapors threat

    Toxic vapors threatBRISBANE — Despite a legally binding notice of improvement being served on the Royal Brisbane Hospital (RBH) by the division of workplace health and safety, the spills of liquid mercury coming from