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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.
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.
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.
Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
Legislation | 17.05.2007
Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
Legislation | 17.05.2007
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.
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
Kellogg's scoops behavioural safety prize
News | HSW | 02.02.2007
Key figures in UK health and safety
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
Key figures in UK health and safety highlight the issues they believe will keep us busy this year
NI Water Service censured for blast death
News | HSW | 01.02.2007
EU launches accident plan
News | HSW | 01.02.2007
Defusing aggression
Philip Hammond | Features | HSW | 03.01.2007
Exposure to aggressive behaviour is a workplace hazard like any other, and workers have a right to reasonable protection from it. Philip Hammond and John Goodwin of the CIEH say letting angry people talk themselves out is critical to successfully defusing aggression.
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.
HSE plans to give employers paper cuts
News | HSW | 01.12.2006
Toolbox talks
Sara Bean | Features | | 01.12.2006
Sara Bean explains how to make sure health and safety messages stick in toolbox talks
Case study: Award-winning formula for safety management
Jocelyn Dorrell | Case Study | 01.12.2006
Morrison Utility Services (MUS) has an award-winning formula for safety management. Jocelyn Dorrell found out more.
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.
HSE makes risk a matter of principle
News | HSW | 01.10.2006
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
Competent for a fire risk assessment
Dave Sibert | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Dave Sibert of the Fire Protection Association explains how to decide if you are competent to carry out a fire risk assessment.
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.
New NEBOSH chief
News | HSW | 01.08.2006
Case study: Stress - LMHT's means of support
Sara Bean | Case Study | 01.07.2006
In the last of our series, Sara Bean talks to an employer who is walking the stress risk audit talk and has cut sickness absence by a percentage point
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