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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.
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.
Award winning HSW conference
News | HSW | 13.08.2007
Here's a winning health and safety conference.
Reasonable practicability survives EC challenge
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Construction card scheme aims to sort the fit from the ailing
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
European Safety Week
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Musculoskeletal disorders will be the focus of this year's European Safety Week, which takes place from 22-26 October.
Case study: Alfred McAlpine's perfect days
Sara Bean | Case Study | 15.06.2007
Sara Bean reports on an initiative that ties safety improvement tightly to business efficiency and customer satisfaction.
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.
Allan St John Holt dies
News | HSW | 01.06.2007
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.
Flawed survey put workers at risk
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.06.2007
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.
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety (Training for Employment) Regulations 1990
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Holding the attention of trainees
Tony Hedges | Features | HSW | 01.05.2007
The safety trainer's lot is not always an easy one. How can you make sure trainees take away the key learning points, have a better experience than they expected and don't sabotage your group or spoil it for the others along the way? How do you hold the attention of trainees who would rather be somewhere else? Tony Hedges gives some performance tips.
The importance of training staff on fire hazards
Sue Tyley | Features | HSW | 01.05.2007
The new fire legislation focuses on fire risk assessment and fire prevention, and has thrown up significant training and competence issues, not just for safety practitioners. The need to have a fire-aware workforce is now greater than ever. Sue Tyley of the Fire Protection Association explains why training staff to look out for fire hazards is more important than ever now the FSO is in place.
Site specifics: CDM 2007
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
There has been an encouraging downward trend in construction accident statistics since 2000; the rate of fatal injury in 2005-06 was three per 100,000 workers - the lowest rate for construction on record. However, some industry bodies are worryingly behind on the CDM revisions which take effect next month. Bridget Leathley looks up the most reliable sources of guidance on the web.
Worker rest and welfare facilities
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Lawrence Bamber's latest article for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma covers facilities provision for workers' rest and welfare
HSE updates human performance website
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Case study: Monitoring the safety of lone workers
Sara Bean | Case Study | 01.03.2007
How do you monitor the safety of hundreds of solo maintenance and repair workers scattered all over a city centre? Sara Bean found out
Unions lack faith in port safety body
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
US report lists BP safety failures from top to bottom
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Kellogg's scoops behavioural safety prize
News | HSW | 02.02.2007
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