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Wise counsel

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 04.07.2008

Buying in health and safety advice is not the same as purchasing other business services - discharging your duty of care to protect employees relies on you dealing with outside experts you can trust. Becky Allen asks some consultants how their clients can get the best service from them.

The measurement maze

David Fellows | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 01.07.2008

The benefits from a comprehensive measurement of performance within a health and safety management system are huge; it will aid elimination of occupational illness and injuries, verify legal compliance and measure continuous improvement. But there can be pitfalls. IIRSM member David Fellows investigates.

HSE publishes annual report

News | HSP | 27.06.2008

Job titles give no clue

News | HSP | 26.06.2008

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Case study: Leeds Hospitals' burning issue

Sara Bean | Case Study | 06.03.2008

Leeds Hospitals' burning issue

Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 06.03.2008

Peter Aldridge understands better than most how the Fire Safety Order works. He was awarded the Chubb-sponsored Fire Safety Manager of the Year prize at the annual Fire Industry Awards last June. Sara Bean talks to the award-winning fire safety manager about the challenges of complying with the new regulations.

Quarrying awards

News | HSW | 06.03.2008

IOSH supports radical measures for corporate killers

News | HSP | 05.03.2008

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.

Are your homeworkers secure?

Howard Fidderman | Features | HSW | 11.02.2008

Last month we looked at the more traditional health and safety aspects of homeworking, particularly equipment and electrical issues. In this concluding feature, Howard Fidderman considers the issues that have increased in importance - although not always in risk - over the past decade, including security and communications challenges.

Keeping safety high on the board agenda

Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 11.02.2008

The supplier of half the UK's sugar has developed a model of director responsibility that goes way beyond any guidance, where board members are each responsible for discrete areas of safety such as fire or contractor management. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to British Sugar's company safety manager about the firm's director-led approach to safety management.

A culture phenomenon

Tim Marsh | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 23.01.2008

Difficulty in estimating how contrary people can be is a key learning point. Telling them to adjust is almost the worst way to make change happen. However, if people decide themselves to adapt, the outcome can be vastly different. Dr Tim Marsh discusses how affective safety management can benefit the workplace.

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

Case study: club together

Louis Wustemann | Case Study | 11.01.2008

If two heads are better than one, how much better are 14? David Gault would argue 14 work well when it comes to solving workplace problems. That's the number of members in the Shropshire Health and Safety Group. Louis Wustemann sat in.

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