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Employers' obligations on sight tests for DSE users
Adrian Taylor | Features | HSW | 04.04.2007
Why is there so much confusion about employees' entitlement to sight tests? Is it the regulations? Or the status of glasses? Adrian Taylor of Specsavers brings into focus employers' obligations on sight tests for display screen equipment users.
Special treatment for new and expectant mothers
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
Every year, 440,000 women continue to work during pregnancy. But despite legislation making employers pay specific attention to the needs of new and expectant mothers, most fail to carry out even basic assessments. In fact, EOC research suggests only half of working pregnant women have had a health and safety risk assessment. These women need special treatment, explains Lucie Ponting.
Accident reporting shortfall
News | HSW | 01.04.2007
Flooring specifications and slip hazards
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
The science of slips is an eye-crossingly complicated mixture of fluid dynamics, friction coefficients and human factors. Louis Wustemann discovers that flooring specification is an area where many organisations fall down on slip hazards.
Verdant cleans up
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
According to HSE research, there are currently around 162,500 people employed in the waste management industry, and accident rates in the waste industry are higher than those in construction. Sara Bean reports on a waste contractor's graphic approach to bucking the sector's worrying accident trends.
What are insurance companies doing to help safety management?
Adrienne Gleeson | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
Employers' liability insurers should have an interest in cutting workplace accident rates, because they end up paying for the consequences. So what are the insurance companies doing to help improve safety management in large and small businesses? Adrienne Gleeson investigates.
A workplace stop-smoking scheme
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
A workplace stop-smoking scheme could offer more than health benefits, finds Jocelyn Dorrell, in the last of our series on the smoking legislation
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
Ladder-gate
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Lords push to widen corporate killing bill
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
NHS injury claw-back could send employer costs soaring
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
HSE updates human performance website
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
More detail required on sick notes
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Keyboards could be replaced
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Advocate general leaves door open in UK safety law case
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.03.2007
Unexpected HSE defeat on foreseeability
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.03.2007
Making your workplace smoke-free
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.03.2007
The countdown to smoke-free workplaces has begun. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to some organisations that have already made the switch, and finds out that time is of the essence
Case study: Ahead of the game
Jocelyn Dorrell | Case Study | 01.03.2007
The countdown to smoke-free workplaces has begun. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to some organisations that have already made the switch, and finds out that time is of the essence.
One-track minds mean drivers must down phones
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Mental health biggest factor for IB claimants
News | HSW | 01.03.2007
Site specifics: Asbestos
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 04.02.2007
Despite the fact that asbestos is no longer used in the UK, the legacy of the estimated six million tonnes of it still present in our schools, hospitals, ships, offices and factories makes it the greatest single cause of work-related deaths in the country. Bridget Leathley finds the best sources of information online on managing the UK's greatest workplace killer.
Taking accurate noise measurements
Seggy T Segaran | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
The Health and Safety Executive's advice has always been that if you have to shout to talk to someone two metres away this is usually a clear indication that noise levels are around the 85dB mark. Seggy T Segaran argues that estimating workplace noise levels is often a poor substitute for taking accurate measurements.
Man left paralysed after drain fall
Prosecutions and Claims | 01.02.2007
Roger Bibbings earns award
News | HSW | 01.02.2007
Office workers underestimate back suffering
News | HSW | 01.02.2007
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