Sectors

Eddie Stobart has been fined £133,000 for a number of failures that resulted in staff at its rail and container freight port in Widnes, Cheshire being exposed to asbestos.

One of the most anticipated and busiest shopping events of the calendar year is upon us – but how can retailers keep customers and staff safe? We look at how they can mitigate the risks.

Lee Bennett is a health and safety manager at British Land, which owns more than 50 shopping centres and retail parks across the UK. He tells us how he has bene planning for one of the busiest shopping days of the year.

IOSH magazine spoke to HSE inspector Bill Gilroy about a serious accident at a Nestlé factory in Newcastle – an almost carbon copy of a previous incident at another of the confectionary firm’s factories.

As Topshop and Arcadia are fined £1m over boy's death, Katie Heath, Principal Environmental Health Officer at Reading Borough Council, describes how systemic failings in health and safety can lead to tragedy.

Two companies and two people have been sentenced after a teenage construction worker was fatally injured while working on a house-build construction site in Lincolnshire.

More than three quarters of Britain’s schools contain asbestos – and the HSE is clamping down on them this month.

A civil engineering firm has been fined £600K for safety breaches after a missing seven-year-old child was found dead by workers on a construction site.

The GB Health and Safety Executive has recently published a revised version of its fire safety in construction (HSG168) document. 

Organisations need to take a strategic, planned approach to support employees who are living with Long Covid and not simply rely on line managers to decide how best to manage individual cases.