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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.
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.
Safety boss honoured
News | HSP | 02.01.2008
Lighter regulation questions
News | HSW | 12.12.2007
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
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