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HSE reveals Euro Campaign plans
News | HSP | 08.05.2008
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.
New example risk assessments available
News | HSP | 26.02.2008
PM promises common sense from risk body
News | HSW | 14.02.2008
Lighter regulation questions
News | HSW | 12.12.2007
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.
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.
ALARP: making risk as unlikely as possible
Duncan Spencer | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Most safety legislation is not prescriptive, but essentially requires managers to write their own rules. So anyone tasked with managing risk is left to grapple with a variety of questions. Duncan Spencer looks at the principle of reducing risk to as low a level as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
Case study: The Mall's centres of excellence
Sara Bean | Case Study | 15.09.2007
Sara Bean reports on a shopping centre operator's enforcement partnership which takes in 23 local authorities across the UK.
Assessing employees' wellbeing
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Health assessments for safety-critical staff make sense, says Lucie Ponting, but in other cases their value may be limited.
HSE serves up SME samples
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
Avoiding the tickbox idea of risk assessment
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 12.08.2007
How do you make sure risk assessments don't become an end in themselves? Lucie Ponting considers the ways.
If the mask fits
Helen Collins | Features | HSW | 09.08.2007
Helen Collins takes a deep breath and explains the ins and outs of face fit testing for RPE
Just another hazard
Oliver Brennan | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
People who continually verbally abuse, threaten, humiliate and denigrate colleagues, causing them unreasonable stress, are themselves hazards and, as such, are harmful to the health and safety of people unfortunate enough to have to work with them. Oliver Brennan says that you should apply the same risk management techniques to workplace bullies that you would to any inanimate hazard.
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health review
News | HSW | 01.05.2007
Ridiculous EC case threatens UK safety law
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.11.2006
BUPA fined £90,000
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.11.2006
Regulations require checks for ill health in staff
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
Regulations increasingly require businesses to check staff for signs of ill health. Lucie Ponting reports how surveillance to find the early signs of work-related ill health range from simple self-assessment, through to checks by occupational health professionals.
Case study: Stress - LMHT's means of support
Sara Bean | Case Study | 01.07.2006
In the last of our series, Sara Bean talks to an employer who is walking the stress risk audit talk and has cut sickness absence by a percentage point
The Guardian makes news with RSI payout
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.07.2006
Stress: The assessment stage
Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
In the third and last of her series on effective stress risk auditing, Rosemary Anderson moves on to the risk assessment itself.
Chlorine gas leak pollutes hotel's safety record
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.05.2006
Behaviour modification
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006
Lawrence Bamber reviews the importance of behaviour modification in safety management systems.
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