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Competent for a fire risk assessment
Dave Sibert | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Dave Sibert of the Fire Protection Association explains how to decide if you are competent to carry out a fire risk assessment.
Fatigue at work
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
Fatigue at work dents productivity and can lead to accidents. Lucie Ponting sends a wake-up call.
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.
Managing special events
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.08.2006
If your organisation is hosting an event this summer, chances are they'll call on you as the person responsible for health and safety to ensure it all goes smoothly and safely. From summer parties and open days to music festivals, Sara Bean looks at the safe way to manage special events.
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.
Site specifics: confined spaces
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
Details of confined spaces accidents in the UK are difficult to locate: the Institution of Electrical Engineering states that around 15 people are killed in confined spaces each year. Bridget Leathley finds web guidance on safe working in tight spots.
An employer's use of a stress risk audit to cut absence
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
In the last of our series, Sara Bean talks to an employer who is walking the stress risk audit talk and has cut sickness absence by a percentage point
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.
Hazard reporting in the Gherkin
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
The firm that built London's "Gherkin", among other landmarks, has increased hazard reporting by its employees and contractors by 1000% through a charity scheme. Sara Bean reports.
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.
Report on the Buncefield explosion
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
In their latest report on last December's Hemel Hempstead oil depot fire, the investigators have finally identified the mechanical failures that contributed to the explosions. Lucie Ponting reports.
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.
The cost of office hazards
Sarah Silcox | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
Sarah Silcox talks to a manager who argues office hazards can cost more than site accidents.
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.
REACH chemicals Regulation
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 01.05.2006
As the smoke begins to clear around the new EU chemicals regime, Paul Reeve looks at how it will fit with COSHH and other UK regulations.
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.
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