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Neglecting the safety of occasional drivers
Rick Wood | Features | HSW | 05.09.2008
The Department for Transport estimates that up to one in three road crashes involves someone at work. This means that every week, about 200 road deaths and serious injuries involve people who were driving, riding or otherwise using the road for work purposes. Rick Wood of RoSPA warns against neglecting the safety of occasional drivers.
Barrington's concrete results
Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridgeshire cement plant and quarrying operation has managed eight years with only one lost-time accident. Andrea Oates reports.
Major accident investigations: the aftermath
Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
Paul Hopkin marks the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster by considering how major incident investigations in the past 30 years have moved from examining plant and equipment failures to consider safety culture and behaviour.
Pillar to post: industrial doors
Mark Baugh | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
When is a door not a door? When it's a hazard. External industrial doors and their internal counterparts separating areas of warehouses and distribution centres can, if they are mis-specified, misused or neglected, be extremely hazardous, and lead to serious injuries. Mark Baugh of Caljan Rite-Hite discusses the ins and outs of industrial door safety.
And the winners are...
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008
The water utility sector is arguably one of the more hazardous sectors for construction contractors, involving deep excavations, confined spaces and negotiating and managing road traffic. Wales' water utility literally prizes its contractors safety initiatives, as Sara Bean discovers.
Better health under construction
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008
The construction industry's health and safety performance is under constant scrutiny. Lucie Ponting reports on the latest developments in the project to promote health standards and monitoring throughout the construction industry.
Workplace machinery: on your guard
Michael Ellis | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Michael Ellis sets out the basics of managing physical barriers between moving machinery and human limbs.
RoSPA 2008: from board room to portakabin
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Ever wondered what's the fastest way to irritate an HSE inspector visiting your site? Jocelyn Dorrell and Louis Wustemann report back from RoSPA's three days of seminars on directors' duties, workplace transport and construction in Birmingham last month.
In the line of fire: protecting emergency workers
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
By definition, emergency workers often face danger at work. But as they go about the daily business of saving lives and protecting people, they now face an extra set of risks in the form of attacks from the public. Lucie Ponting reports on initiatives to protect emergency workers from attack that show early signs of paying off.
2012: the road to the games
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.06.2008
It's been described as the equivalent of building two Terminal 5s in half the time. The transformation from scratch in six years of 2.5 square kilometres of industrial land in east London into performance space for the world's greatest athlete is a huge challenge. We begin a five-year chronicle of the steps to safeguard workers on the UK's biggest construction project.
Veolia sends assistance
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Sara Bean talks to Europe's biggest waste handler about how roving safety assistants are helping keep accident rates down in its 80 UK sites.
Safety data sheets: part 2
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
Whether you are likely to be compiling data sheets or interpreting them in the workplace, Element B2 of the NEBOSH syllabus says students must be able to outline their contents. In the second of two articles, Lawrence Bamber sets out the common contents of a safety data sheet.
Lowering the tones: noise in the entertainment sector
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
From this month, the music and entertainment sector has to fall in with new noise regulations. The change represents a potentially baffling challenge to the sector, and looks set to produce major changes both in attitude and practice in music venues across the UK. Becky Allen finds out how the Royal Opera House has coped.
A psychological approach to risk perception
David Fellows | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 14.03.2008
The range and scope of individual psychology is large and diverse and ranges from the almost mystical to clinical or work based psychology. But what impact does it have on health and safety in the workplace? David Fellows FIIRSM asks.
Getting safety right on a multi-occupancy site
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008
In a multi-occupancy site, individual employers need to work with each other, as well as with landlords and contractors, so that everyone knows exactly who is responsible for what and where. Without this, hazards can too easily slip through the net until something goes wrong or someone gets hurt. Where do your safety duties begin and end? Lucie Ponting finds out.
Staying in one piece: slips, trips and falls
Eddie Bailey | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008
Slips, trips and falls currently account for one fatality a week and 38% of all major workplace injuries. Last month the HSE launched a campaign, Shattered Lives, which is aimed at creating a step-change in the attitudes of both businesses and their workers in several sectors. The HSE's Eddie Bailey explains how it will help practitioners win hearts and minds.
Leeds Hospitals' burning issue
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 06.03.2008
Peter Aldridge understands better than most how the Fire Safety Order works. He was awarded the Chubb-sponsored Fire Safety Manager of the Year prize at the annual Fire Industry Awards last June. Sara Bean talks to the award-winning fire safety manager about the challenges of complying with the new regulations.
When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing
Howard Fidderman | Features | HSB | 27.02.2008
Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, how have the courts been sentencing employers convicted of health and safety crimes? And what will be the impact of the new sentencing guidelines for manslaughter when they come into force later this year? Howard Fidderman believes that sentencing should not be left to the courts.
Are your homeworkers secure?
Howard Fidderman | Features | HSW | 11.02.2008
Last month we looked at the more traditional health and safety aspects of homeworking, particularly equipment and electrical issues. In this concluding feature, Howard Fidderman considers the issues that have increased in importance - although not always in risk - over the past decade, including security and communications challenges.
Keeping safety high on the board agenda
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 11.02.2008
The supplier of half the UK's sugar has developed a model of director responsibility that goes way beyond any guidance, where board members are each responsible for discrete areas of safety such as fire or contractor management. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to British Sugar's company safety manager about the firm's director-led approach to safety management.
Demolition began with workers still inside
Features | HSP | 05.02.2008
A Hertfordshire trader who began to demolish a building while workers were still inside must pay £25,000 in fines and costs. An HSE investigation revealed SJB had not checked the area or issued any warning before beginning the work, with the inspector adding that it was a great mercy that no member of the public was injured.
Firm fined £20,000 after four hurt in floor collapse
Features | HSP | 28.01.2008
Construction firm Excelcare Developments has been fined £20,000 for safety failures which led to four workers being seriously injured when the floor they were working on collapsed. HSE Inspector Amanda Huff described the accident, which happened at a site in Bromley, as avoidable, adding that the firm broke every rule going.
Asda pays £267,000 for car park death
Features | HSP | 22.01.2008
Supermarket chain Asda has been fined £225,000 plus costs after admitting safety failures over the death of Kenneth Farr, who was killed when a security barrier smashed through the windscreen of his car as he drove into the car park of Asda's Cardiff Bay store.
SMEs: making small beautiful
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 14.01.2008
there is an array of health and safety information aimed at small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) and there is no doubt that some of it, for example the HSE's web-based information, is very good. In the first of a new series simplifying health and safety management for small businesses, Paul Reeve outlines the basics of a management system
Liverpool Council's ticket to drive
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 14.01.2008
The corporate manslaughter legislation has put driver safety in the spotlight. Jocelyn Dorrell reports on Liverpool City Council's behicle safety training programme, which involves every employee who drives as part of their job.
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