Management

A safety management system, however well conceived, can only get only you so far. We find out how behavioural science can provide the nudges needed to help transform safety culture.

Sainsbury’s has been fined £1 million after measures taken during the Covid pandemic to help organise orderly queueing at the company’s Newbury store left a customer facing life-changing injuries.

Richard Jones CFIOSH, former head of policy at IOSH, on how April 7 is a prompt to encourage investment in decent work and social sustainability.

Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee “in an incident waiting to happen”.

Construction firm Carillion’s failure to construct a drainage system correctly in accordance with the designer’s requirements has been identified as the main cause of a passenger train derailment at Carmont, Aberdeenshire in 2020, the Rail Accident Investigation Board (RAIB) has found.

The dangerous levels of fatigue in the TV and Film industry have broader lessons for OSH professionals.

User guide to your brain

The theme of this year’s International Women’s Day is ‘break the bias’. We ask nine women in the OSH profession how we can create a world free of discrimination.

Four industry leaders on how businesses can improve behavioural safety and combat distractions, peer pressure and complacency.

A study that evaluated an office relocation to a greener and open space in which active design features were introduced to encourage staff movement and interaction has concluded that individual behaviour change must be prioritised to achieve the best health and wellbeing improvements.