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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.
Setting hire standards
David Cochran | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Employment agencies throughout the UK supply drivers for haulage companies. This workforce is a valuable resource: a phone call away and very low maintenance. They will turn up at short notice with no idea of what the next job entails. David Cochran argues that anyone using agency drivers should check they aren't overstretched and underbriefed.
Safeguarding workers abroad
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007
Business travel is an integral part of many Britons' jobs. Despite huge advances in information and communications technology, UK residents made more than nine million journeys abroad for work last year - up 12% since 2004. But what toll does it take on their health and safety and how can the risks be best managed? Becky Allen reports.
Tesco.com's driver safety initiative
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Over the last two years, Tesco.com's online grocery delivery service has not only ramped up safety standards among its drivers but also now grows its own driver trainers to maintain the improvement. Sara Bean reports on the initiatives being taken to reduce accident rates.
Road risk: the web's best guides
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Bridget Leathley steers you towards the best online resources on occupational road risk.
Promoting safe motorcycle use
Kevin Clinton | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Whether it's because of reduced running costs, beating congestion or sheer exhilaration, more and more people are choosing motorbikes over cars. Kevin Clinton suggests employers should help them protect themselves.
Combining people and vehicles safely in construction sites
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Vehicles striking pedestrians or overturning, falls from cabs and lorry beds; the list of the most common workplace transport accidents is the same on construction sites as in the depots and factories that featured in the first three articles in our series. In the last of our series, we look at combining people and vehicles safely in the variable geography of construction sites.
Workplace transport: ruling out risk December
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
In the third of our series, Louis Wustemann considers training and instructions to promote safe behaviour around site vehicles.
Workplace transport: machine guards
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
In the second part of our series on workplace transport, Louis Wustemann gets into safe vehicles.
Workplace transport: A place of safety
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
In the first of a new series on reducing vehicle accidents on company premises, Louis Wustemann looks at site management
Drive to survive: company cars
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.12.2005
Lawrence Bamber says business driving deserves the same thoroughness in risk management as any other work activity.
Effective safety communication
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.08.2005
Effective safety communications are required to prevent musculoskeletal injuries in the UK waste industry says ergonomist Duncan Abbott
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