Human factors

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. 

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.

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?

Supermarket chain W.M. Morrison PLC has pleaded not guilty to four health and safety charges following the death of one of its workers in 2014.

Engagement is the holy grail of strong health and safety performance – we found out about Volkerstevin’s award-winning initiative, Safety Ripple.

A wood recycling plant operator has been fined £910,000 after a self-employed lorry driver was struck by a wheeled shovel loader and died.

A roofer and scaffolder who have been prosecuted over a fatal fall from the roof of a two-storey terraced house did not put simple preventative measures in place to avoid the incident.

A recent article on accident investigation prompted an interesting debate. IOSH thought leadership manager Chris Jerman CFIOSH attempts to expand that debate further with his views on investigation techniques.