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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
HSE's Better Backs campaign
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.03.2007
When you consider the degree of manual handling required in so many occupations, from the people who deliver online groceries to those in construction and manufacturing plants, it's probably no surprise that most back injuries are caused by work. Sara Bean reports on the early fruits of the HSE's biggest ever workplace campaign: Better Backs.
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
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.
New smoke-free legislation for England and Wales
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
This year will see English and Welsh workplaces finally become smoke-free zones. In the first of a series of articles on the new legislation, Jocelyn Dorrell looks at signage, shelters and penalties
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
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.
Classic legal cases for NEBOSH students
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 02.01.2007
In the latest of his articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber studies some classic legal cases. He also takes a look at the cases that underpin some of the basic health and safety duties, including an employer's duty of care and responsibility for creating a safe system of work.
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.
Unnatural fibres
John Thorne | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
PPE manufacturers are putting military and space-race materials in the palm of your hand, as John Thorne of safety glove specialists Marigold Industrial explains.
Toolbox talks
Sara Bean | Features | | 01.12.2006
Sara Bean explains how to make sure health and safety messages stick in toolbox talks
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.
Utilities: a textbook case
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
From board-level safety representation and investment in training to a safety culture that extends beyond the workplace to workers' homes, Morrison Utility Services' (MUS) safety-management approach is model HSE best practice. Jocelyn Dorrell found out more about its award-winning formula for safety management.
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