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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.
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.
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
Club together
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 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.
House of hazards?
Features | HSW | 11.01.2008
Numbers of home teleworkers have increased rapidly in the past decade as employers embrace flexible work patterns, pushed on by government encouragement and business demands. In the first of two articles, Howard Fidderman says discharging your duty to safeguard homeworkers is not so hard.
Cases in point 3
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 06.01.2008
In the latest in his series of revision pieces for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber goes back to some more landmark legal judgments.
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.
What's in store for 2008
Features | HSW | 10.12.2007
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.
Dealing with dust extraction
Andy Quail | Features | HSW | 01.12.2007
Andy Quail, commercial director at Carter-Thorne, explains why it is important to think ahead when dealing with dust extraction
Communication and consultation
Lawrence Waterman | Features | HSW | 01.12.2007
In the last of his Back to Basics series, Lawrence Waterman outlines best practice approaches to workforce engagement
Sustainability first
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
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.
Taking the lead: first HSW conference
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
Leadership and the need for senior management engagement were the themes that occurred at the recent HSW Conference. Delegates were given an overview of current and future developments in regulation, such as corporate manslaughter, and good practice on issues ranging from accident reduction to the new CDM Regulations.
Behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
London's Natural History Museum houses the world's oldest pieces of jewellery and plant fossils among its collections. And now the museum's head of health and safety has his own record to boast, having steered the museum to be the first accredited to the OHSAS 18001 international safety management standard. Louis Wustemann reports.
Seen to be green
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
To identify potential sources of pollution and to evaluate their subsequent impact on the environment, it's vital to have some common measures to monitor environmental management systems. In the latest of his revision articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber looks at environmental performance indicators.
Encourage staff involvement with a workplace safety committee
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Safety committees are nothing new, says Lucie Ponting, which means they are often undervalued as a way of securing employee involvement.
A guide to contracting outside expertise
Lawrence Waterman | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Louis Wustemann takes advice on how to ensure the consultant you hire is the right one.
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.
Safety incentives: do they work?
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
Of course safety should be a reward in itself. But managers struggling to engage reluctant employees in organisations where executives talk about safety only in terms of red tape may feel they need to offer something more. However, opinion is divided on whether paying staff safety incentives cuts accidents or simply encourages employees not to report them. Jocelyn Dorrell investigates.
Training firms at the Expo
Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
All the major trainers will be competing for business at Expo. We look at what they'll be offering.
Work at height at the NEC
Mike Birch | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
Mike Birch reports on arresting work at height offerings on display at the NEC.
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