Safety Management magazine | British Safety Council

Low robot growth risk to wellbeing and productivity, finds inquiry

By Belinda Liversedge on 18 September 2019

Heaters and smoke simulate fire emergencies in new ‘immersive VR’

By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019

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Millions of workers missing out on basic rights: Resolution Foundation report

By Belinda Liversedge on 16 September 2019

Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards: winners announced

By Belinda Liversedge on 20 September 2019

Six organisations have scooped the top prizes in EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards.

Low robot growth risk to wellbeing and productivity, finds inquiry

By Belinda Liversedge on 18 September 2019

Heaters and smoke simulate fire emergencies in new ‘immersive VR’

By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019

Millions of workers missing out on basic rights: Resolution Foundation report

By Belinda Liversedge on 16 September 2019

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Single enforcement body for worker rights proposed in consultation

By Belinda Liversedge on 13 September 2019

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Safety and environmental law enforcers ‘hamstrung' by ten years of cuts

By Belinda Liversedge on 09 September 2019

'Farms are workplaces, not playgrounds'

By Belinda Liversedge on 26 August 2019

Children and young people are regularly killed and injured in incidents with farm vehicles. Learning the lessons won’t bring them back but is vital if we’re to stop child deaths on farms.

Down to earth

By Nik Sweeting, Aplicaciones Tecnológicas S.A. on 02 September 2019

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Saving lives by stopping falls

By Chris Kendall, chair of the Access Industry Forum on 22 August 2019

When lanyards can injure: what every employer should know

By Ben Pepper, Bolt Burdon Kemp on 15 August 2019

Hull firm fined after worker loses arm in tyre blast

By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019

A Hull tyre company has been ordered to pay over £41,000 in costs and fines after its employee lost his arm when a crane tyre he was inflating exploded in an incident in December 2015.

Volvo Group fined after employee fractures spine at Glasgow depot

By Belinda Liversedge on 27 August 2019

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GTR fined £1m for Gatwick Express window fatality

By Belinda Liversedge on 17 July 2019

Marathon Oil fined £1.16m for Boxing Day gas blast

By Belinda Liversedge on 30 May 2019

Power and risk

By Mike Robinson, Chief executive, British Safety Council on 20 September 2019

The recent story of diminishing public investment in HSE and local authority enforcement has sometimes been justified as a necessary focus on the higher hazards against everyday risks.

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Beware the working dead: presenteeism, a sacrifice too far?

By Matthew Holder, British Safety Council on 11 September 2019

The jury is out

By Neal Stone, McOnie Agency on 28 August 2019

Redefining workplace wellbeing – Part II

By Anna Ryland, British Safety Council on 27 May 2019

Some of Britain’s most eminent thought leaders and campaigners took part in the British Safety Council’s roundtable debate on workplace wellbeing held in March. They examined and challenged wellbeing concepts and practices.