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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.
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.
Testing and choosing the right model gas detector
Sarah Ursulan | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Worker safety and a facility's security can depend on choosing the right portable gas detector. There are several factors to consider before deciding which detector fits your needs. Assessing and testing gas detectors before you commit yourself will help you choose the right model for the job, explains Sarah Ursulan.
Ladder ban rumour
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
The myth that the Work at Height Regulations 2005 (WAHR) ban the use of ladders or steps just refuses to go away. Paul Reeve explains why lingering rumours of a ladder ban are greatly exaggerated.
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
Access using powered mobile platforms
Gordon Leicester | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Gordon Leicester of Facelift lays out the options for access using powered mobile platforms
Rescue planning for workers hanging in harness
Roger H Smith | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Roger H Smith of Leading Edge emphasises the importance of thorough rescue planning for workers left hanging in harness
How Kier monitors safety of lone workers
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 05.02.2007
If managing the safety of building services workers in large commercial properties is job enough, it becomes almost impossible when most are lone workers scattered around residential housing estates, with no supervisor in sight. How do you monitor the safety of hundreds of solo maintenance and repair workers scattered all over a city centre? Sara Bean found out.
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.
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.
Combining people and vehicles safely in construction sites
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Vehicles striking pedestrians or overturning, falls from cabs and lorry beds; the list of the most common workplace transport accidents is the same on construction sites as in the depots and factories that featured in the first three articles in our series. In the last of our series, we look at combining people and vehicles safely in the variable geography of construction sites.
Is fashionable PPE effective?
Chris Rochester | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Chris Rochester asks if fashionably styled PPE and work clothing is likely to be less effective at protecting employees or more so
How the government responds to civil crises
John Norton-Doyle | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Buncefield, foot-and-mouth disease, the London bombings, widespread floods, avian flu threats - the last few years have provided no shortage of reasons to make emergency planning a priority. John Norton-Doyle reviews the government's new arrangements for responding to civil crises.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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