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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.
What's in store for 2008
Features | HSW | 10.12.2007
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Supporting victims of workplace violence
Brian Edwards | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Many line managers and supervisors often lack the skills to help support and rehabilitate employees who become victims of violence or aggression in the workplace. Brian Edwards of Maybo explains why line managers have a pivotal role in providing support to victims who experience violent incidents at work.
ALARP: making risk as unlikely as possible
Duncan Spencer | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007
Most safety legislation is not prescriptive, but essentially requires managers to write their own rules. So anyone tasked with managing risk is left to grapple with a variety of questions. Duncan Spencer looks at the principle of reducing risk to as low a level as reasonably practicable (ALARP).
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
Supervising toxic matter
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
In the latest of his articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber considers monitoring strategies for hazardous substances. He explains what monitoring means, when it is necessary and the strategies and procedures which should be followed.
Assessing employees' wellbeing
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 15.09.2007
Health assessments for safety-critical staff make sense, says Lucie Ponting, but in other cases their value may be limited.
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.
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
Providing safety instructions
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 15.06.2007
Lucie Ponting reports on a just-in-time method of providing safety instructions, where the writing is anywhere but on the wall.
Just another hazard
Oliver Brennan | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
People who continually verbally abuse, threaten, humiliate and denigrate colleagues, causing them unreasonable stress, are themselves hazards and, as such, are harmful to the health and safety of people unfortunate enough to have to work with them. Oliver Brennan says that you should apply the same risk management techniques to workplace bullies that you would to any inanimate hazard.
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.
Health and safety enforcement in China
Adrienne Gleeson | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
In the first of a short series on health and safety enforcement in the major developing economies Adrienne Gleeson looks east to China.
Who's next for the NEC
Mike Birch | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007
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.
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