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 Beating the heat at work

Tuesday 1st November 2022
With temperatures soaring and extreme weather events on the increase, how should business adapt to climate change in the workplace?
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 Legal update: amendments to REACH and radiation regs

Tuesday 13th April 2021
The EU Commission has issued three new amendments to REACH and an updated edition of radiation guidance has been published.
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New study reveals 58% want more help from employers to protect themselves

 Outdoor workers are twice as likely to develop skin cancer

Friday 17th July 2020
New study reveals 58% want more help from employers to protect themselves.
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Sun safety

 IOSH marks #SunAwarenessWeek with top tips to protect workers

Tuesday 5th May 2020
To mark #SunAwarenessWeek, IOSH highlights steps to take to protect workers from harmful ultraviolet radiation.
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 UV protection: a key part of workplace health and safety

Friday 14th June 2019
A survey recently completed by SC Johnson ProfessionalTM showed that only one in four outdoor workers wore sun protection cream during 2018’s summer months – despite this being one of the hottest summers on record with above average hours of sunshine.
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Professor Swen Malte John (third from right), who leads the EADV Task Force on Occupational Skin Disease

 Paris summit responds to non-melanoma skin cancer ‘epidemic'

Friday 17th May 2019
How do you “bring occupational cancer out of the shadows and prevent it?” That was the challenge presented to more than 40 influential stakeholders, including IOSH, EU-OSHA, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) at a summit in Paris on 26 April.
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 N is for non-ionising radiation

Tuesday 9th April 2019
In considering radiation as a health hazard, two types are identified. The first includes the high-energy end of the electromagnetic spectrum (such as X-rays and gamma rays) as well as particle radiation (such as the alpha and beta particles emitted by radioactive sources). Non-ionising radiation describes the middle and lower energy regions of the spectrum. In the mid-range, optical radiation includes ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared, and in the lower range electromagnetic fields (EMFs) include those arising from power cables, microwaves and radio sources.
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 Sellafield worker exposed to plutonium had hand punctured by corroded probe

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
Sellafield has been fined £380,000 after a worker received eight times the annual whole-body exposure limit of plutonium.
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 Sellafield to admit breaching HSW Act after worker contaminated

Wednesday 27th February 2019
The operator of the world’s largest nuclear waste storage and reprocessing site in Cumbria intends to admit a health and safety breach.
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 Sellafield charged over ‘employee contamination’

Wednesday 23rd May 2018
The Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR), the safety regulator for the civil nuclear industry in the UK, said it has notified Sellafield of its intention to prosecute under s 2(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act. The announcement comes after the ONR investigated an incident on 5 February 2017 that resulted in the “personal contamination to a Sellafield employee”.
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