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Safety breaches in manufacturing SMEs
Lynne Oliver | Features | HSW | 04.12.2006
A survey by City & Guilds, carried out in order to understand both the challenges SMEs face when it comes to meeting HSE requirements and their employees' experience of workplace safety, finds them unprepared for the consequences of any safety breaches. Lynne Oliver analyses the findings.
Workplace transport: ruling out risk December
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
In the third of our series, Louis Wustemann considers training and instructions to promote safe behaviour around site vehicles.
CDM 2007: the new rules
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
The revised CDM Regulations are only five months away. Paul Reeve explains the key changes for anyone in construction.
Winter driving hazards
Charles Davis | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
Road risks exist all year round; some are constant and some change with the seasons. In winter, many elements make driving particularly hazardous. So as the nights draw in, Charles Davis of RoSPA navigates employers safely through the season's driving hazards.
Site specifics: lifting operations
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
Bridget Leathley discovers that web guidance on lifting operations is not always within easy reach.
Unnatural fibres
John Thorne | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
PPE manufacturers are putting military and space-race materials in the palm of your hand, as John Thorne of safety glove specialists Marigold Industrial explains.
Behavioural safety initiatives
Ray Curry | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
Behavioural safety initiatives can deliver results, says Ray Curry of Sypol, but only when your business is really ready.
Utilities: a textbook case
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
From board-level safety representation and investment in training to a safety culture that extends beyond the workplace to workers' homes, Morrison Utility Services' (MUS) safety-management approach is model HSE best practice. Jocelyn Dorrell found out more about its award-winning formula for safety management.
Minimising spillage and leaks
Richard Proctor | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
Eliminating spills from the workplace would involve eliminating carelessness, lapses of attention, even sheer bloody-mindedness, from human behaviour - but even then there would still be simple bad luck. Richard Proctor of Darcy Products shows how to prepare for workplace leaks and spillages.
Occupational asthma
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
The UK has one of the highest rates of occupational asthma in the world, and it is still rising. Around a million people with existing asthma symptoms find that their working environment irritates their breathing system and makes the condition worse. Lawrence Bamber looks at occupational asthma, respiratory sensitisers and COSHH.
Workplace transport: machine guards
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
In the second part of our series on workplace transport, Louis Wustemann gets into safe vehicles.
Workplace Health Connect
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
Following the launch of the government's Workplace Health Connect consultancy, aimed at giving SMEs advice on issues from absence management to musculoskeletal disorders, businesses have got more than they bargained for. Louis Wustemann and Jocelyn Dorrell investigate.
Examining safety procedures for deaf people
Liz Parslow | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
Every day, deaf people are exposed to unnecessary, life-threatening dangers because there is little or no access to fire alarm warnings for deaf people in commercial, public-access buildings and workplaces. Liz Parslow of Deaf Alerter examines the different options for warning systems and evacuation methods.
Hazards of call centre headsets
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.11.2006
What will keep health and safety managers busy in years to come? A lack of physical activity by desk-bound employees? Thermal discomfort and "multi-factoral risks" where workers face a number of interacting risks? Jocelyn Dorrell finds that some of the hazards faced by call centre workers come via their headsets.
Lancashire Constabulary's slash of accident and absence rates
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
Earlier this year, Lancashire Constabulary won the Improving Working Lives award, for an overhaul of its approach to health, safety and attendance that cut sickness absence rates by 17% in a single year. It did so under the guidance of Ashley Judd, its occupational health, safety and welfare (OHSW) manager. Louis Wustemann found out how.
Site specifics: fire
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
With new fire safety legislation finally upon us, Bridget Leathley tracks down the best guidance the Web has to offer
Health and safety pay survey 2006
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
HSW and leading recruitment agency Principal People have carried out a major salary survey among 550 health and safety specialists. Louis Wustemann crunches the numbers
Workplace transport: A place of safety
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
In the first of a new series on reducing vehicle accidents on company premises, Louis Wustemann looks at site management
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.
Fatigue at work
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Fatigue at work dents productivity and can lead to accidents. Lucie Ponting sends a wake-up call.
A well-stocked first aid kit
Samantha Chalk | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
When it comes to deciding what first-aid equipment to keep on site, you probably don't want to learn by experience. Finding yourself short of some vital item to treat an injured employee could be at best uncomfortable and at worst harrowing for everyone involved. Samantha Chalk of St John Supplies advises on the contents of a well stocked first-aid kit.
Managing special events
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
If your organisation is hosting an event this summer, chances are they'll call on you as the person responsible for health and safety to ensure it all goes smoothly and safely. From summer parties and open days to music festivals, Sara Bean looks at the safe way to manage special events.
Screen-based training
Mike Denton | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Tony Dervan of EssentialSkillz argues that screen-based training and assessments can take the drudgery out of DSE compliance.
Regulations on employee involvement
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
As the HSC consults on changing the rules on employee involvement, Lawrence Bamber summarises the existing regulations for studentsfor the NEBOSH National Certificate
Why matching workstation equipment to individual need is vital
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
Duncan Abbott explains why matching workstation equipment closely to individual need is vital
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