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Workers in various industries are facing challenging environments in their daily job, dealing with a wide range of on-the-job thermal hazards, the most severe being the arc flash.

The Health and Safety Executive have recently been carrying out spot checks on businesses where there is a risk to workers’ respiratory health from dust. If you fail to protect your workers’ health, then you’re putting yourself at serious financial risk.

Despite the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions around the world, vigilance remains essential when it comes to safety and hygiene in the workplace. So how can employers safely reinstate or introduce drug and alcohol screening without compromising covid safety?

A new briefing note that outlines nine business practices to improve safety and health through supply chains and helps businesses to build a culture of prevention and protection was one of the main OSH developments highlighted at IOSH’s second West Africa Conference, held last month.

A company has been fined £40,000 after a worker fell 36ft (11 metres) and was left paralysed from the waist down when the concrete floor he was working on collapsed beneath him.

Darren Sutton is a Performance Psychologist. He’s passionate about helping people and their organisations to become the very best that they can be – and who want to go beyond compliance, towards excellence in safety performance.

The owners and operators of the Holiday Inn Hotel in Hemel Hempstead have been ordered to pay almost £160,000 after the wooden staircase that a wedding party was standing on for a group photograph collapsed beneath them.

A labourer working at mezzanine level suffered skull fractures and a brain injury because of the negligence of his employers.

Engaged leaders with a clear sense of their role and how it shapes company culture are best equipped to guide their organisations through transformative times.

Rotherham’s Principal Environmental Health Officer Adrian Monkhouse explains how a crane engineer’s six-metre fall resulted in fines totalling £100,000 and a renewed focus on contractor safety.