Leadership and management

Nick Wilson, director of health and safety services at WorkNest, has more than 20 years of training experience, working with individuals from the top to bottom of organisations. Here he explains the steps you can take to improve the effectiveness of training and increased employee engagement when delivering courses.

Newcastle City Council has accepted responsibility for failing to properly manage the risk of a decayed willow tree that collapsed in strong winds and struck several children while they were playing at Gosforth Park First School in Newcastle upon Tyne during the lunchbreak.

OSH is not always top of the boardroom agenda. We explore how you can influence business leaders’ commercial decisions to get them on board with positive health and safety from the outset.

More and more organisations are talking about building it. But what does being resilient mean, and what role can OSH professionals play? Peter Crush investigates.

We find out what soft skills are needed to overcome – or prevent – OSH issues in the workplace.

What does good safety leadership look like? Peter Crush discovers why it needs to be less ‘Do this’ and more ‘Let’s solve this together.’

Business leaders committed to superlative safety performance must lead by example, draw on workers’ insights and practical skills, and ensure corrective and preventive actions.

Beliefs in and attitudes towards safety underpin OSH culture and, ultimately, performance. How do we build a safety culture and how might it change?

Senior OSH specialist Angela Gray on how to be an effective communicator.

Geoff Trickey on how OSH professionals can break with an ‘enforcer’ tradition to make new people-centred models of risk management a success.