Management

A new briefing note that outlines nine business practices to improve safety and health through supply chains and helps businesses to build a culture of prevention and protection was one of the main OSH developments highlighted at IOSH’s second West Africa Conference, held last month.

Delegates at a virtual session on ‘Training for Vision Zero’ at the XXII World Congress last month were told how arming children and teenagers with safety knowledge would enable them to enter the workplace as adults better equipped to make safety decisions and help reduce avoidable accidents. 

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, something strange and unexpected happened in the corporate world – it has rediscovered the value of its humanity.

Mohamed Amine Zahr TechIOSH outlines how to move environmental impact up the corporate agenda with an integrated approach.

The guidelines, which come into force today, could see those found guilty of modern slavery imprisoned for up to 18 years.

IOSH magazine spoke to Naomi Humber, head of mental wellbeing at Bupa UK, to ask her about the different ways OSH practitioners can support the wellbeing of older workers.

Little more than a third of the global labour force has effective access to employment injury protection, and there are significant disparities between high and low income countries, a global overview of recent developments in social protection systems reports.

One result of the COVID-19 pandemic has been to shine a light on the disparities in global OSH behaviours. We asked Nnedinma Umeokafor GradIOSH which opportunities are still there for the taking.

IOSH Future Leader Jessica Sales explains her journey from lab quality control apprentice to QHSE manager with global commercial real estate services and investment company, CBRE. 

Even robust data-gathering systems can be subject to sampling bias or other margins of error – while interpretation can add a second layer of distortion. So how secure are the available OSH statistics, and the decisions resting on them?