Incident management

Nearly 30 per cent of workplace injuries in Singapore are now the result of slips, trips and falls, according to the Straits Times. The first six months of 2019 saw more than 1,800 injuries, a 6 per cent increase on last year, with totals of more than 3,000 per year over the past four years.

The creation of a fire-safe working culture should be a priority for construction firms to prevent life-threatening incidents on sites.

The multi-campus City of Bristol College, used by some 20,000 students and 1,000 staff, has overhauled its evacuation procedures with the help of Evac+Chair.

A training technique typically used in art education offers a fresh perspective on identifying hazards.

A car and commercial vehicle component manufacturer has been fined £1m for failing to risk-assess its tank cleaning procedure after an explosion at its site in Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, left two workers with “significant” burn injuries.  

Costain-Skanska JV’s work on the High Speed 2 rail link’s central London site has changed perceptions on sensitively delivering urban archaeology projects while pleasing two disparate professions.

Workers often recognise and correct their own errors before it is too late, research shows.

The UK government is “not doing enough” to remove and replace potentially dangerous cladding on high-rise residential buildings, MPs have warned.

Evac+Chair recently exhibited its world-leading, emergency evacuation chairs at Safety & Health Expo 2019 at ExCel, London. 

An alloy wheel repair company has been sentenced after a 16-year-old apprentice was overcome by fumes from a substance that contained toxic chemicals, including dichloromethane (DCM).