Compliance

Owner must pay £220k for multiple safety breaches

An overhaul of the UK’s data protection and privacy laws raises serious questions for OSH professionals, who will need to be mindful of the financial and legal costs of non-compliance.

A new competency framework to guide the development of occupational safety and health professionals and meet the needs of employers for a broader set of competencies, has been launched by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH).

Responsibility for the exchange of documents between parties in an injury claim may fall upon a safety professional. So what has to be submitted and are there grounds for refusal?

A New Zealand juice company has been fined NZ$367,500 (£193,334) after it allowed a female employee to operate a faulty machine, which resulted in her death.

Workers often recognise and correct their own errors before it is too late, research shows.

Three-quarters of companies in the UK chemical supply chain do not own the testing data for registrations they currently hold under the European Union’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) legislation.

The UK government has rejected calls for a trial licensing scheme for hand car washes to crack down on labour exploitation.

Housing minister James Brokenshire confirmed on 18 December that the government will implement all the recommendations made by Hackitt in her Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, published in May 2018.The new regime will mandate named dutyholders for fire safety compliance at the design, construction and occupation stages of residential buildings of 10 storeys or more.