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Data project opens up new ways to prevent accidents

By Belinda Liversedge on 22 March 2023

HSE is exploring how AI and data can help employers understand more about how accidents happen and how to prevent them through thousands of stories and reports it stores.

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Protecting workers’ hearing: it’s time to change our approach

By Peter Wilson, Industrial Noise and Vibration Centre (INVC) on 15 March 2023

The risk of workers suffering hearing damage from harmful levels of noise at work could be slashed by as much as 90 per cent by adopting the latest noise control best practice techniques.

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Morrisons fined £3.5m after worker falls to death on stairs

By Belinda Liversedge on 21 March 2023

Morrisons supermarket missed opportunities to ensure the safety of an employee who died at work after suffering an epileptic fit, a court heard.

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Common safety pitfalls in manufacturing – what can we learn from recent prosecutions?

By Hannah Frost, Pinsent Masons on 16 March 2023

Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that the manufacturing sector directly employs approximately 2.5 million people and accounts for 16 per cent of reported injuries to employees in the UK.

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In praise of nothing

By Dr Samantha Peters, Being Well Together on 08 March 2023

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Knowing the price of something does not tell you its value

By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 01 March 2023

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How will the courts view reasonable practicability in the age of covid?

By Chaired by Belinda Liversedge on 14 September 2020

In our latest edition of A Safer Conversation, two experts discuss the concept of reasonable practicability in the age of coronavirus.

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Supply chain: A safer conversation

By Iris Cepero on 09 December 2014

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Redefining workplace wellbeing – Part II

By Anna Ryland, British Safety Council on 27 May 2019

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A safer conversation: flexible working

By Iris Cepero on 13 March 2015