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 EU-OSHA resource to help get workers talking about MSDs

Wednesday 21st August 2019
A new resource for employers to help promote workplace dialogue about musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) has been published by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA). 
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 New partnership to deliver industry-leading magazine and jobs site for safety and health profession

Monday 5th August 2019
 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.
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 Learning from: expert witnesses

Tuesday 23rd July 2019
Three specialists outline five key lessons that OSH professionals can consider in their work.
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 Proposals to prevent health-related job loss an opportunity to be 'vigorously seized'

Thursday 18th July 2019
Proposals aimed at reducing the number of British people who lose their jobs because of disabilities and ill health provide an opportunity that must be “vigorously seized”, the professional body for workplace health and safety professionals said today.
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 ‘Blue tape’ business rules report aims to help SMEs find ‘proportionate’ advice

Thursday 18th July 2019
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.
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 MPs call for action over rise in deaths from work at height

Friday 5th July 2019
The All-party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Working at Height has urged the government to take forward the recommendations in its report after the Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) latest statistics showed an increase in the number of fatal injuries caused by a fall from height.
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 The view from the summit

Sunday 14th April 2019
Practitioners and investor representatives gathered in Paris to examine how safety and health fits into corporate social responsibility. 
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 HSE launches two-month farm inspection campaign

Monday 7th January 2019
Inspectors will focus on issues including machinery, falls from height, child safety and risk posed by livestock. In October and November 2018, the HSE ran a series of agriculture compliance events in South West and Eastern England, Wales and Scotland, which focused on the practical steps that farms can take to ensure compliance ahead of the inspection visits. The events were developed as a result of research into farmers' attitudes to risk and were aimed at changing industry behaviours.
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 Mineral products industry launches entrapment campaign

Tuesday 20th November 2018
The guidance is part of an entrapment reduction campaign launched by the Strategic Forum for Health and Safety in the Mineral Products Sector.LOTOTO builds on the “lock-out, tag-out” procedure, which ensures that power sources are isolated before maintenance work can start. It includes an additional step that requires operators to test the controls before they can complete their tasks.
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 Driver safety special: A mounting concern

Wednesday 14th November 2018
Biffa’s kerbside waste and recycling collection teams routinely run the gauntlet of impatient car drivers mounting pavements beside them at speed to manoeuvre around the parked refuse vehicles.The national recycling and waste management contractor took a while to grasp the scale of the hazard because crews seldom reported these near-misses.“The difficulty is getting the workers to accept there is a problem; they are so used to it,” says Dave West, Biffa’s regional health and safety coach.
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