Health

A lorry driver who was sacked after refusing to wear a facemask inside his cab on a client’s site was fairly dismissed, a judge has ruled.

The risks of airborne coronavirus transmission could be a barrier to a return to work for a third of workers, according to a poll.

The US Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has launched a national emphasis programme focusing enforcement efforts on companies that put the largest number of workers at serious risk of contracting the coronavirus.

The EU Commission has issued three new amendments to REACH and an updated edition of radiation guidance has been published.

As we all anticipate the 'new normal', whatever form it takes, Chris Cleveland CMIOSH, Head of Safety, Health, Environment, Assurance, Risk and Resilience, National Grid Metering, is clear that adaptability will now, more than ever, be an essential skill for safety leaders.

COVID-19 has drastically altered the way we live, but might it also have shown us potentially positive culture changes for the future?

IOSH is calling on businesses to do more to prevent workers from exposure to asbestos as more accurate estimates indicate work-related exposure to this deadly material kills more than 230,000 a year globally.

As well as best practice, we take a closer look at recent case law for manual handling injury claims.

A mental health programme is being piloted in SMEs across the construction, health and IT sectors in Australia and eight European countries.

A select committee hearing last week on the HSE’s COVID-19 response explored the regulator’s controversial decision to hire debt collectors as COVID-19 ‘spot checkers’, with the HSE arguing that the £7 million deal enabled it to ‘triage’ routine cases from serious ones, while the TUC and trade union Prospect declared it had damaged the HSE’s reputation.