The UK government’s Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has launched a review of legislation covering Great Britain that provides protection for workers who ‘blow the whistle’ on wrongdoing in the workplace. This includes when the health and safety of employees and the public is endangered.
While it is a phrase familiar to many, for OSH professionals it is a fundamentally flawed concept. We explore why – and find out how to ensure evidence-based approaches are used.
Using predictive analytics can arm OSH professionals with a powerful tool to expose critical risks and, potentially, avert future fatalities and injuries.
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?
The athletes’ village sits at the heart of every global sporting event. But building these temporary cities against the clock requires a robust OSH culture.