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How the Robens report changed OSH forever

Wednesday 4th May 2022
How the health and safety world has been transformed since Lord Alfred Robens' report in 1972.
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Robens report: 50 years on

Wednesday 4th May 2022
The 1972 Robens report and the organisations it gave birth to transformed health and safety in Britain and has shown remarkable adaptability even half a century later.
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South Korean business owners and managers face tougher OSH penalties

Tuesday 25th January 2022
Business owners and managers in South Korea face significantly tougher penalties for serious accidents or fatalities when new enforcement rules are introduced this week.
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Employers must provide same level of protection to all workers under amended PPE regs

Friday 21st January 2022
Employers need to ensure they are ready to provide the same level of protection to workers who carry out casual work as employees who have a contract of employment when amended personal protective equipment (PPE) regulations come into force on 6 April (https://www.hse.gov.uk/ppe/index.htm).
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Employers should review OSH measures after HSE publishes latest ill-health stats

Friday 7th January 2022
IOSH has urged employers to continually review their OSH measures and ensure they are ‘proportionate and fit for purpose’ after Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual figures for work-related ill-health, injury and enforcement highlighted the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on British workers’ health.
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Prosecutions shine spotlight on importance of volunteer safety

Tuesday 21st December 2021
More than 19 million people in the UK formally volunteer at least once in a 12-month period through a group, club or organisation. In the majority of cases, the work activities these volunteers undertake are low risk.
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Hitting the spot: HSE explains its Covid checks

Tuesday 7th December 2021
The word ‘unprecedented’ has become so overused in any conversation about the coronavirus pandemic, it is hard to find superlatives, but what has certainly been ‘remarkable’ in the health and safety space has been the rapid response co-ordinated between government, regulators, duty-holders and workers.
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Forklift driver who believed son was faking Covid symptoms was ‘unfairly dismissed’ over self-isolation breach

Monday 6th December 2021
A forklift driver whose employer accused him of a ‘serious breach of health and safety processes’ for attending work while his son awaited the results of a Covid test has won his claim for unfair dismissal.
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Litigation landscape in the UK

Thursday 18th November 2021
OSH professionals are critical to establishing the compliance culture and safety management rules that will keep both civil and criminal litigation risk in the UK at bay.
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Senior coroner warns of transformer carbon monoxide risk after electrical engineer’s fatality

Monday 15th November 2021
The senior coroner presiding over an inquest into the death of a high-voltage electrical engineer who was overcome by carbon monoxide while investigating a fault on an industrial transformer is warning IOSH members of the risks.
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