Quick links:

Employee involvement

web_24_HIRES GettyImages-507179537 v4b.jpg

Challenging stereotypes

Thursday 12th November 2020
Are the stereotypes about health and safety professionals being challenged by a younger and more culturally adaptable generation?
Open-access content
How to communicate from behind a mask

Communicating the safety message from behind a mask

Wednesday 19th August 2020
How to communicate from behind a mask
Open-access content
Credit: Getty

Feeling the heat

Thursday 12th December 2019
Sensory elements such as smell and heat now feature in immersive technologies for safety training. The author reports on their impact and test-drives one of them.
Open-access content
Image credit | Getty

Engage and connect

Monday 11th November 2019
Is worker consultation key to overcoming criticism of procedure-led ways to manage safety?
Open-access content
Image credit: iStock-182035502

South Wales builders handed £40,000 fine

Tuesday 3rd September 2019
A South Wales builders’ merchant has been fined £40,000 after an employee sustained multiple fractures while retrieving supplies from racking.
Open-access content

The art of seeing

Saturday 27th July 2019
A training technique typically used in art education offers a fresh perspective on identifying hazards.
Open-access content

Safe traits

Thursday 11th April 2019
Personality can indicate how people will perform in a safety-critical role. 
Open-access content

Building a safety culture needs an oblique approach

Tuesday 18th December 2018
It's an understandable desire; a strong safety culture takes a weight off the shoulders of an OSH practitioner because safeguarding themselves and others becomes every worker's concern and helps make poor risk control exceptional rather than a constant fear. (When the management guru Peter Drucker famously said culture "eats strategy for breakfast" he was only stating the fact that things as they are usually trump things as you would like them to be.)
Open-access content
Image credit: © iStock/georgeclerk

Deliveroo riders lose bid for worker status

Wednesday 12th December 2018
The ruling on 5 December, which dismissed a judicial review brought by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), is a blow to gig economy campaigners seeking union recognition rights and workers' rights such as sickpay and paid holidays. The High Court upheld a previous judgment by labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC) in November 2017, which had confirmed that the food courier's riders were self-employed.
Open-access content

PPE special: Help at hand

Friday 19th October 2018
“The use of PPE must not increase the overall level of risk,” says the Health and Safety Executive’s guidance (L25) on the Personal Protective Equipment Regulations, “ie PPE must not be worn if the risk caused by wearing it is greater than the risk against which it is meant to protect.”
Open-access content