Accident reduction

Fatigue significantly increases the risk of incident when not effectively controlled. Karl Simons, chief health, safety and security officer at Thames Water, explains why organisations need to take fatigue management seriously.

Organisations that focus on high potential events can significantly improve their safety performance.

AB Sugar won last year’s food & drink health and safety awards, with Allied Bakeries Belfast and 2018’s winner Finlays coming second and third. We take a look at what they did to impress the judges.

A trial using electric and hybrid plant on a sensitive central London construction site has cut the risk of work-related injuries and brought wider environmental benefits

Two years after its launch we look at the progress of what is claimed to be the first global OSH campaign.

Latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive Northern Ireland (HSENI) reveal that serious injuries were down by 28% to 325 last year compared to 453 in the previous 12 months. 

A training technique typically used in art education offers a fresh perspective on identifying hazards.

I can’t imagine there are many OSH practitioners who have not heard of Jason Anker. The roofer was paralysed from the waist down after he fell 3 m from a ladder while working on a construction site. He was 24. However, it was not until 16 years later that he began to talk openly about his experience after a safety expert convinced him that his story needed to be told.

Having penned a few titles (The Safety Anarchist and The Edge of Heaven) which some readers may have found unusual or particularly personal – as he strayed from his typical narrative style – Dekker is back in familiar territory with The Foundations of Safety Science.

Costain-Skanska JV’s work on the High Speed 2 rail link’s central London site has changed perceptions on sensitively delivering urban archaeology projects while pleasing two disparate professions.