Millions of workers missing out on basic rights: Resolution Foundation report
By Belinda Liversedge on 16 September 2019
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Norfolk holiday park fined after swimmer found unconscious
By Belinda Liversedge on 30 September 2019
No deal Brexit could push lorry drivers to exhaustion, says Unite
By Belinda Liversedge on 04 September 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
Low robot growth risk to wellbeing and productivity, finds inquiry
The four day week and more fulfilling work is beyond the grasp of UK’s workforce because of the government’s failure to support businesses in the move to automation and robots. That’s according to a committee whose inquiry ‘Automation and the future of work’ has just been published.
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 September 2019
Heaters and smoke simulate fire emergencies in new ‘immersive VR’
Researchers at Nottingham university have discovered how a pioneering immersive virtual reality system might be able to improve workers’ response to a fire – by getting users to smell smoldering ash and feel heat.
By Belinda Liversedge on 17 September 2019
Millions of workers missing out on basic rights: Resolution Foundation report
Around one in twenty workers report not receiving any holiday entitlement, while around one in ten do not receive a payslip according to new analysis published today by the Resolution Foundation.
By Belinda Liversedge on 16 September 2019
Single enforcement body for worker rights proposed in consultation
A consultation entering its last weeks asks whether a new Single Enforcement Body for employment rights should be created to protect vulnerable workers.
By Belinda Liversedge on 13 September 2019
Safety and environmental law enforcers ‘hamstrung' by ten years of cuts
Funding and capability of the UK’s leading enforcement agencies, from the Environment Agency, Food Standards Agency, Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to Forestry Commission has dropped, on average, by 50 per cent in the past ten years.
By Belinda Liversedge on 09 September 2019
324 high rises still ‘cloaked in dangerous cladding’
Government was accused of letting private tower block owners ‘drag their feet’ over removal of dangerous Grenfell-style cladding, at the House of Commons yesterday.
By Belinda Liversedge on 06 September 2019
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