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Industry bodies launch asbestos skills certification
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Industry bodies launch asbestos skills certification
Occupational health standards need to be spread through construction industry
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Occupational health standards need to be spread through construction industry
NZ scholarship programme to boost ageing OSH workforce
Skills
NZ scholarship programme to boost ageing OSH workforce

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Regulation/Enforcement
Singapore committee unveils WSH strategy recommendations to improve OSH

A workplace safety and health (WSH) committee tasked with developing a 10-year plan to improve OSH standards in Singapore has outlined its preliminary proposals. 
Qualifications
England’s first SHE apprenticeship launched

The first cohort of 20 trainees have started England’s first safety, health and environment (SHE) technician apprenticeship, which was launched last week.
Mental health
Indonesian businesses told to extend protection to stressed workers

Indonesian employers must provide practical support to minimise employee stress under a new ministerial regulation, which extends safety and health protection to workers.

Features

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Lasting impressions
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Alternative realities
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Skills
Conversational gambits

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Skills
Taken to task

Before risk assessing a piece of work you have to define its scope. We look at how to do that while avoiding ‘analysis paralysis’. 
Employee involvement
Play to win

Gaming techniques can help to make safety messages stick. 
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Learning from: behavioural economists

How can a combination of psychology and economics, in particular nudge theory, benefit OSH practitioners? 

Columns

Mike Wallace, partner at ERM and a special adviser to the Center for Safety and Health Sustainability
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how OSH professionals can get involved in the human capital conversation
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Andrew Sharman CFIOSH
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how Seth Godin’s Tribes offers a practical perspective on improving performance through people

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