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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.

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

An auto manufacturer talks about pandemic plan

Sarah Silcox | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006

Sarah Silcox talks to an auto parts manufacturer with a finely tuned pandemic plan

Advice on protection from optical radiation

Caroline Brown | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006

With a new Directive in the offing, Caroline Brown offers advice on protection from optical radiation

The business case for health and safety improvements

Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

In the latest of his series of primers for students of the NEBOSH National Certificate, Lawrence Bamber looks at making the business case for health and safety improvements.

Advice on PPE inventory control

Sandie Morris | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

Sandie Morris of BuckHickman InOne offers some advice on PPE inventory control.

Purchasing safety shoes

Graham Buckley | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

Graham Buckley reports on some tests that show not all safety shoes are what they seem.

RoSPA Congress 2006

Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

Louis Wustemann reports back from two big fixtures of the health and safety conference season.

How to wear your PPE

Ian Samson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

Ian Samson of DuPont explains why how you put on your PPE and take it off is as vital as actually wearing it.

Stress: The assessment stage

Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006

In the third and last of her series on effective stress risk auditing, Rosemary Anderson moves on to the risk assessment itself.

Health and safety for volunteering employees

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

When companies are investing time and money keeping their staff safe and healthy at work, how do they ensure the same level of care applies to volunteering employees? Becky Allen investigates.

Improving your safety record

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

A growing number of industries are signing companies up to promise to improve their safety records. Lucie Ponting reports on the results so far.

Employing young people

Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

It is always distressing to hear of serious injuries or fatalities sustained at work, but it is often most disturbing when the victim is a young person just beginning their working life. Young people new to the world of work need special care, Sara Bean reports.

Managing asbestos

Chris Ward | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

Many businesses have fulfilled only part of the duty to manage asbestos at their sites, argues Chris Ward of Bureau Veritas.

Effective PPE

Jim Reid | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

Jim Reid of Bacou-Dalloz explains why your PPE must work together.

Behaviour modification

Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

Lawrence Bamber reviews the importance of behaviour modification in safety management systems.

Stress: preparing the way

Dr Rosemary Anderson | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006

In the second of our series on stress management, Rosemary Anderson explains how to get ready for a risk assessment.

Nestle cuts accident rates with passport control

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.04.2006

One of Europe's largest food manufacturers has cut accidents among its UK contractors by more than two-thirds in just two years. Lucie Ponting found out how

Looking after an ageing workforce

Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.04.2006

Age has been seen as the last bastion of permitted discrimination in employment. But that bastion fell when new legislation prohibiting employers from discriminating against anyone on the grounds of age came into effect. Sara Bean considers the implications of looking after an ageing workforce.