Sector: Central government

An HSE inspector was the victim of violence and aggression while conducting an inspection at a waste and recycling site, it has been revealed.

 IOSH and award-winning content marketing and publishing agency Redactive today announced a new partnership to provide news, updates, insight, careers advice and job opportunities for safety and health’s largest professional community.

Three specialists outline five key lessons that OSH professionals can consider in their work.

The UK government is “not doing enough” to remove and replace potentially dangerous cladding on high-rise residential buildings, MPs have warned.

The safety and health rules businesses impose on each other – often referred to as “blue tape” – combined with inconsistent, sometimes incompetent advice threaten to discredit sensible regulation and good guidance and practice.

IOSH has urged local authorities (LAs) to commit to working closely with regulatory bodies to strengthen safety and health standards across Britain.

Manufacturers of electric vehicles inside the European Union must now fit sound generators to alert other road users and vulnerable pedestrians, under an EU regulation that came into force today (1 July).

The UK government is consulting on whether to ban tyres of more than ten years old on buses, coaches, lorries and minibuses. 

Sarah Albon, inspector general and chief executive of the Insolvency Service, has been announced as the new chief executive of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).

A new joint campaign urging the UK government to introduce a law to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace has been launched by an alliance of unions, women’s rights organisations and the Trades Union Congress (TUC).