Employment assistance programmes (EAPs) can reduce an organisation's costs due to employees' work stress and absence and increase workers' efficiency and commitment and overall work performance. Richard Snowdon is the Business Director of RSCPP, a website which offers bespoke EAP solutions. Here he discusses the value that EAPs can bring to both employees and organisations.

Scaffold collapse seriously injured three workers

Prosecutions and Claims | 15.08.2008

Scrapyard cleared of corporate manslaughter

Prosecutions and Claims | 14.08.2008

Manager fined for RIDDOR failure

Prosecutions and Claims | 13.08.2008

Liability insurance rules to change

News | HSP | 12.08.2008

£120,000 in fines for tower scaffold death

Prosecutions and Claims | 11.08.2008

Goodyear Dunlop fined over forklift incident

Prosecutions and Claims | 11.08.2008

Firm ignored vibration symptoms

Prosecutions and Claims | 08.08.2008

Case study: Barrington's concrete results

Andrea Oates | Case Study | 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.

Barrington's concrete results

Andrea Oates | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

Major accident investigations: the aftermath

Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

Paul Hopkin marks the 20th anniversary of the Piper Alpha disaster by considering how major incident investigations in the past 30 years have moved from examining plant and equipment failures to consider safety culture and behaviour.

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.

Cases in point: stress

Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 08.08.2008

Lawrence Bamber reviews the most important common-law cases which have been brought to court as a result of poor stress risk management, in the latest of his revision guide for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma.

Moving targets: dynamic risk assessment

Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 07.08.2008

Traditional risk assessment is about identifying risks in the workplace so that you can implement suitable controls. Lucie Ponting and Jocelyn Dorrell look at how dynamic risk assessment can help employees manage risks as they arise.

Safety podcasts - a word in your ear

Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 07.08.2008

It seems you can barely listen to the radio for 10 minutes these days before you are encouraged to subscribe to a podcast to entertain or educate you. Bridget Leathley reviews some recent audio downloads on topics ranging from directors' duties to gas safety.

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