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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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