Performance/results

The art of seeing

27 July 2019
Features
A training technique typically used in art education offers a fresh perspective on identifying hazards.
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Elephant in the room

12 July 2019
Accident reduction
With the latest UK stats showing an upward spike in fatalities and reflecting a pattern seen in other countries, how should we interpret these trends and what lessons can we draw from research?   
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The right connections

17 June 2019
Accident reduction
Safety technology can revolutionise the workplace but there are pitfalls to watch out for.
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Safe traits

11 April 2019
Assurance
Personality can indicate how people will perform in a safety-critical role. 
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Finlays: Top of the crop

18 March 2019
Features
Case study
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Learning from: black belts

18 February 2019
Features
Process improvement
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Irish workplace deaths fall to record low

11 January 2019
Performance/results
Figures released by the Republic of Ireland's occupational health and safety regulator, the Health and Safety Authority (HSA), show that 37 people died in work-related accidents in 2018. This is a 23% decrease on 2017 when 48 workers were killed. The farming sector accounted for the largest proportion of deaths last year - a total of 15 people died - even though workers in this sector make up only around 6% of the total workforce. However, it is significantly lower than the 25 deaths recorded in 2017.
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Stress cases hit 17-year high

1 November 2018
Mental health
Cases of work-related stress, depression or anxiety rose by 13% to 1,800 per 100,000 workers in the 12 months to April 2018 compared with 2016-17 when the condition became the most common work-related illness for the first time, overtaking musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). While the rate of MSDs continued a long-term downward trend in the most recent period, dropping to a low of 1,420 cases per 100,000 workers, work-related stress has shown signs of increasing in recent years.
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H is for Hawthorne effect

15 October 2018
Human factors
Hawthorne Works was the name of a factory near Chicago in the US, operated by Western Electric in the early part of the 20th Century. Although Elton Mayo of the Harvard Business School is the name most associated with the Hawthorne effect, he wasn’t involved until 1928, four years into data collection.
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Can we interest corporate investors in injury rates?

27 September 2018
Corporate governance
That is partly because, disasters aside, business leaders are not judged on their OSH performance. Their pay rises and upward moves are almost all determined by cost control and maximising profits.We often argue in these pages that OSH practitioners can do more to raise the profile of their discipline and persuade their employers to take them and their risk management skills more seriously. That’s true but, given the structural factors working against them, the profession’s cause could use some bolstering from outside.
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