Human factors

Rise in major accidents at industrial facilities globally includes 32 major accidents in India since May, claiming 75 lives.

Why OHS practitioners should look to Churchill’s advice and never let a good crisis go to waste.

Lena Durbec, workplace innovation and wellbeing at work consultant, on how understanding the risk/reward workings of the brain can make more productive workers.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is carrying out spot checks on businesses that have reopened since the UK went into lockdown.

A total of 111 individuals lost their lives at work in the 12 months ending 31 March 2020, the lowest ever recorded number of workplace fatal accidents.

The owners of a farm have been fined after an employee lost part of his leg when a wall panel trapped him during the build of a silage pit.

Catherine Baker, director of CIRAS, explains the purpose of confidential reporting and how it leads to better decisions.

The Working Time Directive has been amended to provide workers the ability to carry holiday forward

James Pomeroy considers the the indirect increase in road deaths due to people avoiding public transport during the pandemic

As economies, organisations and workers strive to recover from the downturn caused by the public health crisis of COVID-19, there are calls for long-term investment, prevention plans and to revitalise and ‘build back better’, writes Richard Jones, head of policy and regulatory engagement.