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Building a Winning Safety Culture: Greener Ealing’s story

Thursday 19th May 2022
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Join this live webinar to hear how local authority company Greener Ealing collaborated with technology experts Alcumus to build a winning safety culture through a single integrated EHSQ system; with guest speaker Sandra Hewey, HSEQ and training manager at Greener Ealing.
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Essentials of Safety: Maintaining the Balance

Friday 13th May 2022
Book club
As the author says, this book is not a book about safety, it is a book about people. This book looks at the way that people think and act in the context of occupational safety and health.
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COSHH: Back-To-Basics eBook

Tuesday 10th May 2022
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A plain English guide on the fundamentals of COSHH
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Leadership

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Interview: Nicole Rinaldi

Thursday 21st April 2022
Nicole Rinaldi became director of professional services at IOSH in October 2021. Here, she looks back over her first few months and towards an exciting future for the OSH profession.
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No jab, no job: health and safety versus civil liberties

Thursday 11th March 2021
No jab, no job – easy to say but a minefield to navigate. As the NHS programme rolls impressively on, thoughts turn to how useful vaccine protection might be.
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A model approach to social sustainability

Wednesday 4th May 2022
Human capital and Vision Zero
A model approach, developed by IOSH, details the journey OSH professionals can take to support their business in social sustainability.
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Personal Injury

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Litigation landscape in the UK

Thursday 18th November 2021
OSH professionals are critical to establishing the compliance culture and safety management rules that will keep both civil and criminal litigation risk in the UK at bay.
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Reporting

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The growth of EHS software

Monday 1st November 2021
The demand to record safety at all stages of a project’s progress is fuelling strong growth in EHS software that creates a ‘data ecosystem’.
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The dangers of forestry

Wednesday 4th May 2022
Winter storms and slashed budgets combined with a lack of skills and awareness are leading to needless deaths in forestry and arboriculture.
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5 Reasons Why The Watercooler is a Must Attend Event For All Employers

Monday 16th May 2022
After two years that have turned our home and working lives upside down, one thing is clear: the health and wellbeing of our people has never been more important.
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Innovative Fixed Gas Detection Team Continues Expansion

Wednesday 11th May 2022
Experts in gas monitoring instrumentation since 1976, Shawcity is one of the UK’s leading Fixed Gas detection system specialists. Already trusted by thousands of businesses across the UK and Ireland, the team is continuing to expand throughout 2022 to keep up with growing demand.
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Are your employees at risk from UV over-exposure?

Wednesday 11th May 2022
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the UK and Britain sees 1,700 people diagnosed every year as a direct cause of occupational sun exposure.
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Road safety: a forgotten challenge in workplace change management?

Thursday 5th May 2022
As part of the Government’s efforts to address the cost-of-living crisis, the suggestion was recently made to extend the MOT testing interval to two years, thereby saving motorists the cost of the test and any associated repairs every other year.
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On the right track

An award-winning rail safety awareness campaign

Monday 2nd March 2020
WATCH this video to find out how Network Rail's public awareness campaign against under-18s trespassing on the railways not only won an IOSH International Railway Group Award, but it has also saved lives.
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Work at height round table part 2

Monday 2nd March 2020
Experts from the Prefabricated Access Suppliers’ and Manufacturers’ Association (PASMA), the Association of Technical Lightning & Access Specialists (ATLAS), the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) and MSA Safety discuss topical work at height issues, including the APPG’s recent report Staying Alive.
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Work at height round table part 1

Monday 2nd March 2020
Experts from the Prefabricated Access Suppliers’ and Manufacturers’ Association (PASMA), the Association of Technical Lightning & Access Specialists (ATLAS), the National Access & Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) and MSA Safety discuss topical work at height issues, including the APPG’s recent report Staying Alive.
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