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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: The big guns
Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
Expo will see all the major health and safety membership bodies putting on a show.
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.
Testing time for health
Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
All the health protection providers will be at Expo. Mike Birch looks at what they'll be offering.
SMEs: neatly arranged
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
In the third of our series on health and safety basics, Paul Reeve looks at who does what.
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.
Safety & Health Expo 2008: Fast track to the trainers
Mike Birch | Features | HSW | 01.05.2008
Mike Birch looks at what the major training providers will be setting out on their stalls.
Site specifics: noise
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
New limits on noise in the entertainment sector came into force in April. Bridget Leathley searches the web for the best sources of advice on noise control.
Found in the translation
Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Migrant workers are often left out of the safety advice loop, says Andrea Oates, but some employers are trying to change that.
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.
Asthma at work
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
Becky Allen launches a new series on protecting employees with chronic health conditions by looking at how to care for asthmatics.
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?
2012: the road to the games
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 30.04.2008
We begin a five-year chronicle of the steps to safeguard workers on the UK's biggest construction project.
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.
Communicating your health and safety messages
Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
It can be an uphill task getting health and safety messages across in company publications. You'll be competing with other, more immediately attractive information about social events or charity initiatives. Andrea Oates finds out how to make your health and safety messages stand out in the company newspaper.
Safety training: assessing your methods
David Towlson | Features | HSW | 07.04.2008
Assessment is a tool to monitor learning and student achievement. It can also let you see if your training methods are actually making safety messages stick. David Towlson of RRC Training looks at the options for checking your safety training is getting through to people.
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.
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.
IOSH 08: back to health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 04.04.2008
The chartered safety body held its annual conference in Telford last month. It covered all the latest development in the world of health and safety, including the HSE/HSC merger, Dame Carol Black's review on occupational health, as well as best practice round-table discussions. Jocelyn Dorrell and Louis Wustemann were in the audience.
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.
Site specifics: stress
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 10.03.2008
The HSE says 13.8 million working days were lost in 2006/07 due to work stress, depression and anxiety. Citing HSE research from 2001, the TUC estimates the financial impact is around £3.7 billion. The cost now could be even higher. Bridget Leathley signposts the best sites on the web for guidance on tackling work-related stress.
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