26 MayThe leader of a health and safety professional body has warned there is a Jekyll and Hyde factor at work with regard to the way the British public regards health and safety.
Posted on: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
26 MayThe Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has begun "lobbying hard" for health and safety consultants to be subject to a formal programme of accreditation, in an effort to build trust and respect in the health and safety community.
Posted on: Wednesday, 26 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
21 MayThe Government has launched an occupational health advice line which is being piloted within England, Scotland and Wales.
Posted on: Friday, 21 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
21 MayRecent site inspections by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) focused, among other things, on working at height and many of the companies issued with notices failed on this particular aspect of their work.
Posted on: Friday, 21 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
14 MayEU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has this week met representatives of oil and gas production industry operating in Europe and its offshore areas. The firms attending include Shell, BP and ExxonMobil.
Posted on: Friday, 14 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
14 MayA woman who was in a lift that plunged seven floors to the ground has received an undisclosed "substantial sum" in compensation, according to the law firm Thompsons Solicitors.
Posted on: Friday, 14 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
05 MayThe UK's largest public sector union has revealed that nearly £2 million has been awarded to its members in the last year who have suffered from deadly asbestos-related diseases.
Posted on: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
05 MayAn engineering company in Northern Ireland was recently fined a total of GBP90,000 plus costs after a 55-year-old man died after being crushed between a crane and a roof beam.
Posted on: Wednesday, 05 May 2010 in the category SafetyNetwork
