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 The secrets of five-star audit status

Wednesday 3rd May 2023
A UK recycling firm that successfully completed the British Safety Council’s Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit offers its advice on achieving the top rating.
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 ‘OSH-washing’ safety data

Thursday 2nd March 2023
As greenwashing continues to undermine progress on sustainability, we explore whether ‘OSH-washing’ is an equally concerning issue.
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 ROPE theory

Wednesday 2nd November 2022
In the first part of this two-part series, Paul Verrico CMIOSH and Sarah Valentine set out a new safety theory that uses a ‘story’ to illustrate the need for rest, observation, planning and empowerment (ROPE).
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 PIRC warns safety risks go unreported in workplace safety disclosures review of PLCs

Tuesday 7th June 2022
Companies are deliberately choosing not to report all of their safety breaches and fines, so risks to safety are not being picked up by shareholders and other stakeholders, a review of workforce safety disclosures from publicly listed companies (PLCs) has found.
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 The growth of EHS software

Monday 1st November 2021
The demand to record safety at all stages of a project’s progress is fuelling strong growth in EHS software that creates a ‘data ecosystem’.
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 OSH statistics: how robust are they?

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?
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 Interview: new IOSH CEO Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher

Monday 2nd August 2021
Vanessa Harwood-Whitcher became chief executive of IOSH on 1 August. She spoke to IOSH magazine about her plans and priorities to take IOSH forward.
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 Human-centred safety performance metrics could boost safety across industries

Thursday 22nd July 2021
An international research project is developing human-centred safety performance indicators that could be used to improve safety across different industries. 
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 Fashioning safety at L’Oréal

Monday 1st March 2021
Malcolm Staves, corporate health and safety director at L’Oréal, on building and maintaining an all-encompassing safety culture across the giant multinational’s sites.
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 The power of storytelling

Friday 12th February 2021
Then we’ll begin… Storytelling is a powerful tool for businesses, especially in health and safety. How can professionals use it wisely?
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