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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
Euroweek to lighten MSD load
News | HSW | 12.10.2007
Construction deaths leap up
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
Stress/depression link
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
Case study: The Mall's centres of excellence
Sara Bean | Case Study | 15.09.2007
Sara Bean reports on a shopping centre operator's enforcement partnership which takes in 23 local authorities across the UK.
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.
Shelved survey costs council
Prosecutions and Claims | 15.09.2007
CHIP consultation
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
Compliance code could curb HSE inspections
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
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.
Tory plan to overhaul UK safety law
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
HSE serves up SME samples
News | HSW | 15.09.2007
Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
Legislation | 12.08.2007
Reasonable practicability survives EC challenge
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Injuries and days lost rise
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Construction card scheme aims to sort the fit from the ailing
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
£950,000 shipyard asbestos award
Prosecutions and Claims | 12.08.2007
Mental health problems and MSDs top absence risk league
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
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.
European Safety Week
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Musculoskeletal disorders will be the focus of this year's European Safety Week, which takes place from 22-26 October.
Vibration limits take effect
News | HSW | 12.08.2007
Manufacturers' organisation EEF has reminded employers that reduced limits on exposure to vibration came into force for the use of new equipment on 6 July.
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