Boeing appoints safety roles to board amid fatal crash findings
By Belinda Liversedge on 15 October 2019
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DHL fined £2.6m after falling tyres kill office worker and injure three others
By Belinda Liversedge on 23 October 2019
Safety Management supports European Safety and Health at Work week
By Belinda Liversedge on 21 October 2019
Sickness absence flatlines, but presenteeism remains high
An estimated 141.4 million working days were lost due to sickness or injury in the UK in 2018, equivalent to 4.4 days per worker, official figures show.
By Belinda Liversedge on 11 November 2019
Safety Management supports European Safety and Health at Work week
European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) is hosting a series of events and free resources this week for European Week for Safety and Health at Work, with its dangerous substances campaign taking centre stage.
By Belinda Liversedge on 21 October 2019
Labour announces ‘bold’ menopause at work policy
Menopausal women should be treated by firms as if they have a long-term fluctuating health condition, which needs the appropriate support from workplaces, Labour has announced.
By Belinda Liversedge on 24 September 2019
New Brexit proposals "risk race to bottom” on workers' rights
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has secured a deal with the EU, but his opponents said there was little in it to give us any confidence workers’ rights will be safeguarded after Brexit.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 October 2019
IPPR reveals the workers’ rights most at risk from a no-deal Brexit
A report by a leading think tank has warned No Deal Brexit would give government “considerable scope” to deregulate and weaken rights subtly over time, even if on day one protections would remain in place.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 October 2019
Boeing appoints safety roles to board amid fatal crash findings
Boeing has announced a restructure to its board in the latest attempt to put safety at the heart of decision-making, almost one year after the first of two crashes involving its 737 Max 8 airplane, which killed 346 people in total.
By Belinda Liversedge on 15 October 2019
HSE announces it will inspect stress “if criteria are met”
HSE has issued new criteria for investigating cases of work-related stress, saying that it will investigate if it receives evidence that a “number of staff are experiencing work-related stress or stress-related ill health (i.e. that it is not an individual case)”.
By Belinda Liversedge on 10 October 2019
First ‘global safety map’ reveals preventable deaths and injuries
A new report produced by Lloyd’s Register Foundation and Gallup maps data on safety-related accidents and deaths across the world for the first time.
By Belinda Liversedge on 10 October 2019
Work is cause of mental health issues for two in five employees, says BITC
BITC says it’s Time to Take Ownership after its report of the same name reveals a 'significant' rise in work-related mental ill health.
By Belinda Liversedge on 24 September 2019
Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards: winners announced
Six organisations have scooped the top prizes in EU-OSHA’s Healthy Workplaces Good Practice Awards.
By Belinda Liversedge on 20 September 2019
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