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Work equipment

Council fined £100k over seven HAVS injuries

Lone workers

Union launches guide to protect gig economy workers

Ergonomics

EU-OSHA resource to help get workers talking about MSDs

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Ergonomics

MSDs causing more than a quarter of DALYs lost in NZ

Musculoskeletal harm now accounts for 27 per cent of all work-related disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost in New Zealand, according to a report from the country’s health and safety regulator, WorkSafe. A DALY is defined by the World Health Organization as one lost “healthy” life year.

Regulation/Enforcement

‘Blue tape’ business rules report aims to help SMEs find ‘proportionate’ advice

The safety and health rules businesses impose on each other – often referred to as “blue tape” – combined with inconsistent, sometimes incompetent advice threaten to discredit sensible regulation and good guidance and practice.

Reporting

Council found guilty after child sustains head injury from defective bollard fall

A jury has found Hampshire County Council guilty of breaching s 3(1) of the Health and Safety at Work Act after a six-year-old girl sustained a serious head injury in an incident involving a defective bollard.

Features

Noise

Learning from: expert witnesses

Human-Capital-Project-corporate-social-responsibility-discussion

Sustainability

The view from the summit

Kevin Myers, International Association of Labour Inspection, IALI

Compliance

Kevin Myers, IALI

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Chemicals

REACH: the clock is ticking

In the first of two articles on the EU’s overarching chemicals licensing regulation, we consider the impact of the upcoming registration deadline.

Management systems

Table Talk: ISO 45001 management standard

To coincide with the launch of the new international standard, we gather four experts to discuss the differences between it and the outgoing standard BS OHSAS 18001.

Confined spaces

Humber Bridge: open all hours

Maintaining the Grade 1 listed structure involves working round high wind speeds and 24/7 traffic flow.