Risk management

A probationer police constable has won a disability discrimination case against the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) after being dismissed in July 2021. He had been on probation for five years.

A Kent-based food production company has been fined £858,000 after a 26-year-old employee had to have his right arm surgically removed following an incident.

A remote tribunal has ruled unanimously that an employee dismissed from his position as an employability adviser has been successful in his claims of disability discrimination

AI is transforming the workplace, including health and safety. Here’s what OSH professionals need to know.

After years of steady decline, workplace fatalities in the country rose significantly in 2021-22. We explore the potential causes and the action being taken.

While it is a phrase familiar to many, for OSH professionals it is a fundamentally flawed concept. We explore why – and find out how to ensure evidence-based approaches are used.

A chartered psychologist is calling on employers to consider neurodivergent employees when planning where staff should work so that these individuals can thrive in the workplace.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has refreshed its guidance to make it easier to find and understand advice on how to protect workers in low temperatures.

Chipboard manufacturer Norbord Europe Limited has been fined £2.15m after a four-week trial held at Perth Sheriff Court in Scotland found that a series of failings at its Cowie site in Stirlingshire in July 2016 had led to an employee’s death.

We spoke to HSE Inspector Rose Leese-Weller about how failures in the earliest stages of planning a catering equipment cleaning facility’s shopfloor ultimately led to a worker fatality.