Management

Safety and health professionals must develop non-technical skills to keep pace in the fourth industrial revolution – and IOSH’s new competency framework will be key to this

A flagship campaign to reverse funding cuts to enforcement agencies has been launched, arguing that local and national safety enforcement teams have been “slowly eroded”.

An engineering company in Scotland has been fined following the death of an employee who was struck by a wooden bearer in the yard of a fabrication workshop.

Midlands-based manufacturer, Evac+Chair will be focusing on how you can ensure your organisation follows best practice in emergency evacuation when it exhibits its world-leading range of evacuation chairs at the up-coming Safety Health Environment Show North West, Old Trafford, Manchester, 24 September.

BP Exploration Operating Company must pay £400,000 after it failed to prevent the release of almost 4 tonnes of crude oil in Shetland nearly seven years ago.

A New Zealand court has fined a concrete pump company NZ$500,000 (£260,000) over the “total lack of regard” it showed for its role in the death of an elderly man who fell from his mobility scooter.

A groundworks company has been fined after a security guard sustained serious hand injuries while helping a plant driver at a site in Avonmouth.

The Considerate Constructors Scheme has announced the appointment of a new chief executive to take effect from 16 September.

Considered by many as the “father of quality”, William Edwards Deming said that, for organisations to succeed, they need only two things: commitment, and an ability to open up to new thinking.

High-rise construction site workers aren’t treating evacuation alarms seriously enough and are “risking their lives” by not responding immediately, new research reveals today.