2020 has started with some big risks high up in the news. From fires in Australia as a harbinger of the climate’s power, to violence in the Middle East and, closer to home, the risks involved in leaving the EU, it is these large risks that tend to dominate our attention.
By Mike Robinson, British Safety Council on 23 January 2020
The title of this comment, a statement from Professor Dame Carol Black, the government advisor on health and work, should be displayed prominently at every business.
By Graham Sharp, Stanley on 07 January 2020
The next government must bring back a better environment bill and protect workers’ right to clean air.
By Charles Pitt on 20 November 2019
One of the common experiences of older safety practitioners is the frustrating sense of déjà vu when reading accident investigation reports.
By Lawrence Waterman on 29 November 2019
Looking back to this time last year, my review of 2018 focused on Brexit, economic anxiety from the high street to high profile bankruptcies, changing risks and a welcome upsurge of discussion about mental health in the workplace.
By Mike Robinson on 27 November 2019
If our desire to ‘turn back the hands of time’ is a forlorn hope, much of human history has been taken up by efforts to overcome time passing and things inevitably being forgotten.
By Mike Robinson on 29 October 2019
Demolition, brick cutting, the use of cement, wood and stone working, drilling, exposure to paint and sanding down surfaces in preparation. These are just some of the many construction-related activities where dust is prevalent and where it needs to be controlled.
By Louise Hosking, Hosking Associates on 07 October 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.
By Mike Robinson, Chief executive, British Safety Council on 01 October 2019
We've all been there. You're at work but your mind is not only not on the job, it's not even in the building. Concentration shot, an insistent headache thumps in time to clattering keyboards and you haven't written or said a constructive thing all afternoon. Welcome to presenteeism.
By Matthew Holder, British Safety Council on 11 September 2019
Paying the high price for health and safety failure: the Sentencing Council reports a five-fold increase in the average fine for health and safety convictions.
By Neal Stone, McOnie Agency on 28 August 2019
By Belinda Liversedge on 02 January 2020
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 November 2018
By Peter Harvey, the Fork Lift Truck Association on 26 September 2017
