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In safe hands
Chris Packham | Features | HSW | 11.01.2008
Much has been written about latex allergy, often referring to the epidemic that occurred from wearing natural rubber latex gloves. Unfortunately, some of what has been published doesn't correspond with the scientific evidence. Chris Packham looks at whether natural latex gloves really represent a health hazard.
What's in store for 2008
Features | HSW | 10.01.2008
We offer you the best guesses of some of the most senior figures in health and safety - including the HSE's chief executive and experts at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the EEF manufacturers' organisation - of what will be the pressing issues this year.
Cases in point 3
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 06.01.2008
In the latest in his series of revision pieces for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber goes back to some more landmark legal judgments.
The right connections
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 03.01.2008
Workplace Health Connect, the government's ambitious £20-million two-year pilot project to help small and medium-sized businesses tackle key workplace health issues, gets the thumbs up from employers, reports Lucie Ponting, though it might be better renamed Workplace Safety Connect.
EAPS: get with the programme
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 18.12.2007
Despite a long track record in the US, employee assistance programmes (EAPs) have only become part of UK employers' welfare-at-work armoury in the past two decades. As they steadily gain ground in the UK, with six in ten firms contracting EAPs, Becky Allen looks at what these services offer and how employers can get the most from them.
Safety by the book
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 18.12.2007
While libraries may traditionally be slow-paced, managing safety at the British Library is anything but. Many of these challenges stem from the sheer size of the British Library's undertaking. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to the British Library's head of safety about the challenges of protecting 2,000 staff, 400,000 visitors and 150 million items.
How times have changed...
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 17.12.2007
To mark the start of HSW's 30th anniversary year, Louis Wustemann looks back to the magazine's first issue in September 1978, when the health and safety world was just beginning to learn the implications of a whole new order. This article gives a serious insight into how much the health and safety world has changed over the last three decades.
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.
Site specifics: display screen equipment
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
Bridget Leathley explores how employees can use display screen equipment safely, with links to the latest guidance and research on how to minimise the risk of using VDUs. With sources ranging from the HSE and the London Hazard Centre to the BBC and the University of Reading, this offers a comprehensive range of advice.
Checking your ladder is still up to the job
Dave Elson | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
To coincide with the HSE's ladder exchange, Dave Elson offers a quick guide to checking your ladder is still up to the job.
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.
CDM 2007: the story so far
Stuart Armstrong | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM) have now been in force for more thank six months - enough time for some early signs to have emerged on how they are being applied in practice on new construction projects across the UK and which aspects clients and principal contractors need to watch out for. Stuart Armstrong reports.
Health and safety pay survey 2007
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
The love of money may be the root of all evil, but in a market economy health and safety professionals cannot be blamed for taking a healthy interest in what price their services command. Louis Wustemann analyses this year's pay survey of 500 health and safety professionals.
Sustainability first
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007
Safeguarding workers abroad
Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007
Business travel is an integral part of many Britons' jobs. Despite huge advances in information and communications technology, UK residents made more than nine million journeys abroad for work last year - up 12% since 2004. But what toll does it take on their health and safety and how can the risks be best managed? Becky Allen reports.
Head protection
Ian Browning | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007
Ian Browning of Arco puts the lid on head protection.
Please speak up: encouraging employees to flag up health problems
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 17.10.2007
A whole raft of cultural and organisational barriers mean that too many UK workers are still failing to flag occupational health problems - whether or not they are caused by their jobs - until they can no longer work. Lucie Ponting looks at ways to encourage employees to flag up health problems such as stress or MSDs before they become acute.
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.
Corporate killing: lines of defence
Mark Tyler | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
The planned date for the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act to take effect is 6 April 2008. In our second article on the new Act, Mark Tyler explains how organisations need to check and revise management systems and train senior managers to help safeguard themselves against prosecution.
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.
Behind the scenes at the Natural History Museum
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
London's Natural History Museum houses the world's oldest pieces of jewellery and plant fossils among its collections. And now the museum's head of health and safety has his own record to boast, having steered the museum to be the first accredited to the OHSAS 18001 international safety management standard. Louis Wustemann reports.
Seen to be green
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 16.10.2007
To identify potential sources of pollution and to evaluate their subsequent impact on the environment, it's vital to have some common measures to monitor environmental management systems. In the latest of his revision articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber looks at environmental performance indicators.
A look at the new Corporate Manslaughter Act
Mark Tyler | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Mark Tyler picks the bones out of the new Corporate Manslaughter Act
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