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Safety podcasts: hearing voices

Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 10.11.2008

Bridget Leathley reviews the latest free audio safety downloads, and their different presentation styles.

Three-way split

Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 10.11.2008

Grampian Foods has been experimenting with safety audits using teams made up of management, HSE and employee representatives. Andrea Oates reports.

Engaging directors: the numbers game

Duncan Spencer | Features | HSW | 10.11.2008

Some health and safety managers become frustrated because their management boards don't appear to understand the challenges they face. In the first of two articles on briefing senior executives on safety management Duncan Spencer suggests an alternative to RIDDOR stats.

PPE persuasion

Nigel Day | Features | HSW | 16.10.2008

PPE safeguards workers from injury and ill health in hazardous situations. But providing workers with PPE is only the first step to protection, says Nigel Day. The second is getting them to wear it.

HSE updates worker involvement guidance

Jocelyn Dorrell | News | HSP | 16.10.2008

Leadership checklist published

News | HSP | 26.09.2008

English lessons improve street cleaning safety

Sasha Wood | News | HSP | 24.09.2008

Pass it on: cascade training

Paul Smith | Features | HSW | 05.09.2008

Cascade or train-the-trainer systems involve training a small group who then pass on what they know to the rest of the workforce. But planning and preparation are crucial in avoiding failure. Paul Smith of the E.ON Engineering Academy sets out the pros and cons.

E-learning: avoiding systems failure

Julian Roberts | Features | HSW | 05.09.2008

There are few areas of life which have not been changed by the coming of the internet. The way we work, shop, play, meet our spouses and develop our understanding of the world have all been transformed by the technology. Julian Roberts of Safety Media explains how to stop your e-learning programme going the way of various government IT projects.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Case study: Miller's tale

Sara Bean | Case Study | 09.11.2007

Sustainability first

Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007

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.