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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.
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.
Better health under construction
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.07.2008
Lucie Ponting reports on the latest developments in the project to promote health standards and monitoring throughout the construction industry.
Pressure relief: tackling stress
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
In the latest of his catch-up articles for NEBOSH National Diploma students, Lawrence Bamber looks at the causes and control of work-related stress in the workplace.
Working with cancer
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
A recent survey found that only one in four employers had policies for managing employees with cancer and less than half provided information and support to members of staff dealing with the disease. Becky Allen continues our series on protecting and supporting employees with serious medical conditions.
Getting caught in the trap: stress management
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Over the last five years, the number of working days lost per year due to work-related stress (WRS), anxiety and depression has remained pretty constant, fluctuating around the 13 million mark. If employers aren't making enough progress in workplace stress management, it's because they keep getting caught in the same traps, argues Rosemary Anderson.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
SMEs: statements of intent
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008
It is a legal requirement that employers with five or more employees have a written policy statement on health and safety, including the organisation and arrangements for carrying out the policy. In the second of our series on management basics for smaller businesses, Paul Reeve focuses on how to lay the foundations.
Have we lost our way with risk assessments?
Paul Smith | Features | HSW | 06.03.2008
Risk assessment has become a central plank of our safety philosophy and practice. But are we missing the points? Paul Smith of Empower Training suggests the overwhelming emphasis on written risk assessments has sent us off the right path.
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.
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
In safe hands
Chris Packham | Features | HSW | 11.01.2008
Much has been written about latex allergy, often referring to the epidemic that occurred from wearing natural rubber latex gloves. Unfortunately, some of what has been published doesn't correspond with the scientific evidence. Chris Packham looks at whether natural latex gloves really represent a health hazard.
The right connections
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.01.2008
Workplace Health Connect, the government's ambitious £20-million two-year pilot project to help small and medium-sized businesses tackle key workplace health issues, gets the thumbs up from employers, reports Lucie Ponting, though it might be better renamed Workplace Safety Connect.
EAPS: get with the programme
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 18.12.2007
Despite a long track record in the US, employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have only become part of UK employers' welfare-at-work armoury in the past two decades. As they steadily gain ground in the UK, with six in ten firms contracting EAPs, Becky Allen looks at what these services offer and how employers can get the most from them.
Site specifics: display screen equipment
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
Bridget Leathley explores how employees can use display screen equipment safely, with links to the latest guidance and research on how to minimise the risk of using VDUs. With sources ranging from the HSE and the London Hazard Centre to the BBC and the University of Reading, this offers a comprehensive range of advice.
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.
Health and safety pay survey 2007
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The love of money may be the root of all evil, but in a market economy health and safety professionals cannot be blamed for taking a healthy interest in what price their services command. Louis Wustemann analyses this year's pay survey of 500 health and safety professionals.
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.
Please speak up: encouraging employees to flag up health problems
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 17.10.2007
A whole raft of cultural and organisational barriers mean that too many UK workers are still failing to flag occupational health problems - whether or not they are caused by their jobs - until they can no longer work. Lucie Ponting looks at ways to encourage employees to flag up health problems such as stress or MSDs before they become acute.
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