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What lies beneath
Shelley Atkinson-Frost | Features | HSW | 10.11.2008
Shelley Atkinson-Frost explains how to locate buried services safely.
A cut above
Phillippe Bermot | Features | HSW | 16.10.2008
The first cut is not always the deepest, but you still want to prevent it. Philippe Bermot of Showa explains the European cut and abrasion resistance standards for safety gloves.
Barrington's concrete results
Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridgeshire cement plant and quarrying operation has managed eight years with only one lost-time accident. Andrea Oates reports.
Pillar to post: industrial doors
Mark Baugh | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008
When is a door not a door? When it's a hazard. External industrial doors and their internal counterparts separating areas of warehouses and distribution centres can, if they are mis-specified, misused or neglected, be extremely hazardous, and lead to serious injuries. Mark Baugh of Caljan Rite-Hite discusses the ins and outs of industrial door safety.
Workplace machinery: on your guard
Michael Ellis | Features | HSW | 09.06.2008
Michael Ellis sets out the basics of managing physical barriers between moving machinery and human limbs.
Getting safety right on a multi-occupancy site
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008
In a multi-occupancy site, individual employers need to work with each other, as well as with landlords and contractors, so that everyone knows exactly who is responsible for what and where. Without this, hazards can too easily slip through the net until something goes wrong or someone gets hurt. Where do your safety duties begin and end? Lucie Ponting finds out.
Staying in one piece: slips, trips and falls
Eddie Bailey | Features | HSW | 07.03.2008
Slips, trips and falls currently account for one fatality a week and 38% of all major workplace injuries. Last month the HSE launched a campaign, Shattered Lives, which is aimed at creating a step-change in the attitudes of both businesses and their workers in several sectors. The HSE's Eddie Bailey explains how it will help practitioners win hearts and minds.
When things go wrong - health and safety sentencing
Howard Fidderman | Features | HSB | 27.02.2008
Nine years after the Court of Appeal concluded that fines for health and safety offences were too low, how have the courts been sentencing employers convicted of health and safety crimes? And what will be the impact of the new sentencing guidelines for manslaughter when they come into force later this year? Howard Fidderman believes that sentencing should not be left to the courts.
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
Marshalling expertise
Dave Lewis | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The actions of staff in the event of a fire are likely to be crucial to their safety and the safety of other people in the premises. Dave Lewis outlines the role and training needs of fire marshals.
Head protection
Ian Browning | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007
Ian Browning of Arco puts the lid on head protection.
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.
Gas monitors: going prepared
Sarah Ursulan | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
Where the potential for hazardous atmospheres is enough for you to supply monitors, you need to provide workers with training on how to use them. Providing a worker with a gas detector and showing them the area in which they will work is not a recipe for success. Sarah Ursulan explains why you need to give them thorough training.
Safe use of warehouse racking
Philip Pinel | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Philip Pinel stacks up the arguments for the safe use and careful maintenance of warehouse racking systems.
Avoiding the tickbox idea of risk assessment
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 12.08.2007
How do you make sure risk assessments don't become an end in themselves? Lucie Ponting considers the ways.
Safely laundering protective clothing
Features | HSW | 09.08.2007
Richard Newton comes clean about safely laundering protective clothing.
If the mask fits
Helen Collins | Features | HSW | 09.08.2007
Helen Collins takes a deep breath and explains the ins and outs of face fit testing for RPE
Refusal to wear PPE
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 09.08.2007
What can you do if employees won't wear their protective gear? Lucie Ponting has the answer.
Site specifics: going smoke-free
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
On 1 July 2007, England will follow Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in going smoke-free. An employer's main responsibility will be to ensure that no-one smokes in enclosed or substantially enclosed areas. The keys to achieving compliance are a smoke-free policy and appropriate signage. Bridget Leathley finds the best online guidance.
Risk assessments for disabled workers
Duncan Abbott | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
Don't panic. That's the first thing to remember if you are called on to carry out a personal risk assessment for a disabled worker, says Duncan Abbott. In this article, he demystifies combined risk assessments and DDA assessments for disabled workers and explains how to apply the five steps to risk assessment.
Taking responsibility for safety
John Gilbertson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
If employees won't take any responsibility for their own safety, you need a hard-nosed approach to rule breaking, argues John Gilbertson.
Occupational health offerings at Expo 2007
Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
From noise monitoring equipment and asbestos management software, to furniture to cut the risk of deep-vein thrombosis, we report on the occupational health offerings on show.
Biological agents
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 02.05.2007
Following the recent case in Barrow, Cumbria, which was the culmination of an outbreak of Legionella bacteria at the town's main theatre and arts venue that caused the deaths of seven people from legionnaire's disease, there has been an upsurge of interest in all things biological. Lawrence Bamber examines biological agents in the latest of his articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma.
Safety footwear
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.05.2007
There is a bewildering range of protective footwear to choose from, some of which boasts slip-resistant qualities, but how do you know which ones live up to their claims? Louis Wustemann reports on HSE tests showing which safety footwear offers best slip resistance.
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