Articles by Richard Jones CFIOSH

As COP27 seeks urgent answers, climate change increasingly threatens worker health, with the hottest seven years on record and current policies that could lead to a 2.4-3.5 degrees centigrade increase by 2100, according to The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels (2022).

Public policy, codes and accords should be better used to protect factory workers worldwide from Leicester to Lahore; so argues Richard Jones CFIOSH, commenting on new research reports, as the ILO recognises OSH as a fundamental right.

Prevention of future deaths on the scale of the Grenfell Tower fire requires cross-disciplinary liaison between regulatory bodies and the Coroner Service, writes Richard Jones CFIOSH.

World No Tobacco Day saw thousands of organisations promote smoke-free work and its many benefits across the globe.

Richard Jones CFIOSH, former head of policy at IOSH, on how April 7 is a prompt to encourage investment in decent work and social sustainability.

Has the Covid-19 pandemic increased the risk of worker exploitation in your sector? Evidence suggests it has.

In the week the world marks Human Rights Day, Richard Jones CFIOSH, former head of policy at IOSH, highlights key public policy developments.

This article focuses on social sustainability and the leading role that OSH and OSH professionals can play in achieving it and helping secure our future planet, prosperity and public good.

Amid heightened concern over new pandemics, Richard Jones CFIOSH suggests better biohazard management, global standards and effective regulation will be fundamental in keeping us all safe.

As economies, organisations and workers strive to recover from the downturn caused by the public health crisis of COVID-19, there are calls for long-term investment, prevention plans and to revitalise and ‘build back better’, writes Richard Jones, head of policy and regulatory engagement.