Suitable training plays an essential role in preventing fatalities and dangerous situations during work in confined, hazardous spaces like tanks, silos and sewers, but it’s essential that any course selected genuinely reflects the specific tasks, hazards and risks workers will be faced with.
By Adam Barker, Draeger Safety UK on 22 September 2026
Low-level access equipment like powered lifts can help make work at height safer by providing a secure, enclosed working platform, but they can also bring other benefits, such as avoiding the need for awkward stretching to reach work areas, which helps to prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
By Samuel Butterworth, JLG Power Towers on 22 September 2026
A recent safety awareness day has highlighted the importance of contractors regularly practising emergency rescue from mobile elevating work platforms, rather than relying on one-off training sessions and paper procedures that are not always easy to follow during a fast-moving incident.
By Ben Hughes, Horizon Platforms on 22 September 2026
British Safety Council has called on the UK Government to ban the import and export of high silica-containing products within the next five years to protect workers from the risks associated with high-concentration silica-containing materials.
By British Safety Council on 20 August 2026
By Thomas Tevlin on 13 August 2026
By British Safety Council on 30 July 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 29 July 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 27 July 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 22 July 2026
Suitable training plays an essential role in preventing fatalities and dangerous situations during work in confined, hazardous spaces like tanks, silos and sewers, but it’s essential that any course selected genuinely reflects the specific tasks, hazards and risks workers will be faced with.
By Adam Barker, Draeger Safety UK on 22 September 2026
By Samuel Butterworth, JLG Power Towers on 22 September 2026
By Ben Hughes, Horizon Platforms on 22 September 2026
By Francis Camilleri, TB Davies on 21 September 2026
A clinical waste disposal company has been fined £300,000 after a court heard how surgeons had to spend six hours re-attaching a man’s arm after it was severed below the elbow in an unsafe machine.
By Thomas Tevlin on 02 September 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 July 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 June 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 11 June 2026
Success can sometimes be a problem. The better we become at preventing incidents, the harder it can be to see what is actually preventing them.
By Mike Robinson, chief executive, British Safety Council on 11 September 2026
By Rob Music, The Migraine Trust on 07 September 2026
By Emma Tattersdill, Bexley Beaumont law firm on 17 August 2026
By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council CEO on 07 August 2026
