In 2020, our lungs couldn’t catch a break
By Dominic Phinn, ClientEarth on 03 December 2020
Opinion
The power of thank you
By Samantha Peters, Being Well Together Committee on 05 January 2021
The ‘new normal’ needs good mental health
By Jennie Armstrong on 19 November 2020
Domestic abuse – employers can provide support
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, we have been told to stay at home. For millions of us though, home isn’t a safe place.
By Lyndsey Dearlove, Hestia on 22 February 2021
Wellbeing: start by talking to your staff
The Covid pandemic has shone a light on the declining mental wellbeing of UK workers.
By Mike Robinson, British Safety Council on 11 February 2021
The power of thank you
It’s been said that since we are given the gift of 84,000 seconds every day, we should use at least one of them to say ‘thank you’. That’s not bad advice. And a simple thank you does more than you might think, for you, as well as for those on the receiving end.
By Samantha Peters, Being Well Together Committee on 05 January 2021
In 2020, our lungs couldn’t catch a break
Our government urgently needs to step up action on air pollution.
By Dominic Phinn, ClientEarth on 03 December 2020
The ‘new normal’ needs good mental health
That ‘we shout safety but whisper health’ was something regularly heard within the construction health and safety community before 2020.
By Jennie Armstrong on 19 November 2020
Making common between the local and national
The idea that ‘local knows best’ is a deeply rooted one. The UK’s national institutions such as the Home Office, even the monarchy or Church of England, are relative latecomers when compared to local structures like shires that originated with our Saxon or Roman heritage.
By Mike Robinson, British Safety Council on 02 November 2020
Covid-19 is now a foreseeable risk: duty holders on notice
The Covid-19 pandemic has put a spotlight on health and safety requirements the civil and criminal law imposes on duty holders. It has done so in the context of a virus no one had heard of 12 months ago and in respect of which scientific understanding is evolving.
By Keith Morton QC on 03 November 2020
Injury prevention must be a public health priority
It’s Zahra’s first day back at work, as her office reopens after several months. Before this year, she wouldn’t have said her job at an IT services company was a dangerous one – bar the odd stray cable on the floor.
By Lesley Rankin, Institute for Public Policy Research on 21 October 2020
The future of wellbeing
I don’t think it’s any exaggeration to say that 2020 is already a year like no other. At the end of last year, I wrote about how anxiety is causing us to take our health and wellbeing far more seriously.
By Mike Robinson, British Safety Council on 12 October 2020
Something to smile about
Something I really miss these days is smiling. I don’t mean I never smile. Rather, it’s the interaction I miss. I smile at you. You smile at me. Our mood lifts. It’s a language everyone understands. Masks inevitably mute the process.
By Samantha Peters, Chair of Being Well Together on 05 October 2020
