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What's in store for 2008
Features | HSW | 10.12.2008
We offer you the best guesses of some of the most senior figures in health and safety - including the HSE's chief executive and experts at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the EEF manufacturers' organisation - of what will be the pressing issues this year.
Heads up
Stewart Kidd | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008
Just one or two sprinkler heads can control or extinguish a fire, but proper maintenance of the system is essential, writes Stewart Kidd.
Down to cases
Hilary Ross | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008
Hilary Ross and Melissa Jones look at what some recent fire safety cases tell employers about the Fire Safety Order regime.
Alarming regularity
Dennis Davis | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008
Dennis Davis explains how to conduct effective fire evacuation drills.
Site specifics: slips, trips and falls
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008
Bridget Leathley pinpoints the best websites for advice on avoiding slip and fall hazards.
SMEs: starters' orders
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008
In his series of articles on health and safety fundamentals for smaller employers, Paul Reeve covers getting new employees off to a good start.
And the winners are...
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008
Wales' water utility literally prizes its contractors safety initiatives, as Sara Bean discovers.
Portable IT equipment and combustible materials
Stuart Scott | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Stuart Scott clears up some confusion about portable IT equipment and combustible materials.
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.
High spec: providing prescription safety glasses
Laura Barton | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Eyes and eyesight are at risk in many working environments. Laura Barton focuses on the basics of providing prescription safety glasses
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.
Safety & Health Expo 2008: Scaling new heights
Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
We preview the work at height innovations at Expo this year.
Safety & Health Expo 2008: Protection racket
Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
We preview the suits and boots and safety gear on offer at the NEC.
The wheat from the chaff
Duncan Spencer | Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
Duncan Spencer of Waitrose argues an activity-based approach can help you reduce the volume of written risk assessments.
Keeping migrant workers in the safety advice loop
Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
The nature of their employment means migrants directed by gangmasters often live a precarious existence despite the efforts of the authorities, but those directly employed are not always so much better off. However, some employers are trying to change that, says Andrea Oates.
Digging to the root
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Looking for root causes and reviewing control measures can prevent accidents recurring, but change for change's sake can be damaging.
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.
Setting hire standards
David Cochran | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
David Cochran argues that anyone using agency drivers should check they aren't overstretched and underbriefed.
Who let the dogs in?
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Sniffer dogs and toilet swabs may seem pretty hardline, says Lucie Ponting, but if you suspect drug dealing on your premises, what else can you do?
First-aid training: changes ahead
Features | HSW | 14.04.2008
2009 could see the first changes to the first aid at work regulations for a quarter of a century. Richard Evens of St John Ambulance previews the likely changes to first-aid training rules next year.
Sound stress management training
Paul Smith | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
Stress is one of the slipperiest of health and safety topics. Though it's seen by managers as, at best, a difficult subject and, at worst, a complete impostor, stress in the workplace just cannot be ignored. Paul Smith looks at what you should expect from sound stress management training.
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.
Know how: reporting and recording techniques
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
It might be easy to see accident reporting as another bit of red tape that ticks the box and is only of interest to the pedantic safety or HR manager. But the truth is your accident book may be of interest to many people, including claims solicitors and judges. Jocelyn Dorrell looks at reporting and recording techniques for workplace accidents and near-misses.
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