Transport and logistics

A workforce that is overstretched and inexperienced will require training and support if health and safety standards are to be maintained, argues transport safety manager Dean Roscoe CMIOSH.

WorkSafe NZ has published a report with 13 recommendations to improve vehicle-related health and safety and actively manage supply chain pressures to minimise vehicle-related risks.

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is calling for a legal duty on employers to protect workers from heat-related risk after the Met Office issued its first ever extreme heat warning in July.

A transport boss has been jailed for 15 years and a driver sentenced to six years after two men died when their car was hit by an HGV with faulty brakes.

The airline giant was prosecuted for ‘significant failings’ in the general management of supervision and monitoring, risk assessment and training.

A distribution firm has been fined £300,000 over safety failings after a conveyor belt collapsed in a ‘scissor-like motion’ and crushed one of its workers.

The UK's biggest freight operator has been prosecuted after a worker suffered life-changing injuries when a train collided with his vehicle on a level crossing.

The IOSH-funded Driver Diesel Exposure Mitigation Study (DEMiSt) recently revealed its findings about professional drivers’ exposure to diesel pollution in London.

Fifty-seven Transport for London staff have died from the virus – IOSH magazine looks at the measures TfL has put in place.

Mike Hedges has been a London taxi driver for 30 years and more recently became a researcher into air pollution.