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The importance of training staff on fire hazards
Sue Tyley | Features | HSW | 01.05.2007
The new fire legislation focuses on fire risk assessment and fire prevention, and has thrown up significant training and competence issues, not just for safety practitioners. The need to have a fire-aware workforce is now greater than ever. Sue Tyley of the Fire Protection Association explains why training staff to look out for fire hazards is more important than ever now the FSO is in place.
Employers' obligations on sight tests for DSE users
Adrian Taylor | Features | HSW | 04.04.2007
Why is there so much confusion about employees' entitlement to sight tests? Is it the regulations? Or the status of glasses? Adrian Taylor of Specsavers brings into focus employers' obligations on sight tests for display screen equipment users.
Special treatment for new and expectant mothers
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
Every year, 440,000 women continue to work during pregnancy. But despite legislation making employers pay specific attention to the needs of new and expectant mothers, most fail to carry out even basic assessments. In fact, EOC research suggests only half of working pregnant women have had a health and safety risk assessment. These women need special treatment, explains Lucie Ponting.
Flooring specifications and slip hazards
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
The science of slips is an eye-crossingly complicated mixture of fluid dynamics, friction coefficients and human factors. Louis Wustemann discovers that flooring specification is an area where many organisations fall down on slip hazards.
What are insurance companies doing to help safety management?
Adrienne Gleeson | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
Employers' liability insurers should have an interest in cutting workplace accident rates, because they end up paying for the consequences. So what are the insurance companies doing to help improve safety management in large and small businesses? Adrienne Gleeson investigates.
A workplace stop-smoking scheme
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
A workplace stop-smoking scheme could offer more than health benefits, finds Jocelyn Dorrell, in the last of our series on the smoking legislation
Site specifics: CDM 2007
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.04.2007
There has been an encouraging downward trend in construction accident statistics since 2000; the rate of fatal injury in 2005-06 was three per 100,000 workers - the lowest rate for construction on record. However, some industry bodies are worryingly behind on the CDM revisions which take effect next month. Bridget Leathley looks up the most reliable sources of guidance on the web.
Ladder ban rumour
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
The myth that the Work at Height Regulations 2005 (WAHR) ban the use of ladders or steps just refuses to go away. Paul Reeve explains why lingering rumours of a ladder ban are greatly exaggerated.
Worker rest and welfare facilities
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Lawrence Bamber's latest article for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma covers facilities provision for workers' rest and welfare
Access using powered mobile platforms
Gordon Leicester | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Gordon Leicester of Facelift lays out the options for access using powered mobile platforms
Rescue planning for workers hanging in harness
Roger H Smith | Features | HSW | 02.03.2007
Roger H Smith of Leading Edge emphasises the importance of thorough rescue planning for workers left hanging in harness
Making your workplace smoke-free
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.03.2007
The countdown to smoke-free workplaces has begun. Jocelyn Dorrell talks to some organisations that have already made the switch, and finds out that time is of the essence
Site specifics: Asbestos
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 04.02.2007
Despite the fact that asbestos is no longer used in the UK, the legacy of the estimated six million tonnes of it still present in our schools, hospitals, ships, offices and factories makes it the greatest single cause of work-related deaths in the country. Bridget Leathley finds the best sources of information online on managing the UK's greatest workplace killer.
Taking accurate noise measurements
Seggy T Segaran | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
The Health and Safety Executive's advice has always been that if you have to shout to talk to someone two metres away this is usually a clear indication that noise levels are around the 85dB mark. Seggy T Segaran argues that estimating workplace noise levels is often a poor substitute for taking accurate measurements.
New smoke-free legislation for England and Wales
Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
This year will see English and Welsh workplaces finally become smoke-free zones. In the first of a series of articles on the new legislation, Jocelyn Dorrell looks at signage, shelters and penalties
Key figures in UK health and safety
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.02.2007
Key figures in UK health and safety highlight the issues they believe will keep us busy this year
Defusing aggression
Philip Hammond | Features | HSW | 03.01.2007
Exposure to aggressive behaviour is a workplace hazard like any other, and workers have a right to reasonable protection from it. Philip Hammond and John Goodwin of the CIEH say letting angry people talk themselves out is critical to successfully defusing aggression.
Classic legal cases for NEBOSH students
Lawrence Bamber | Features | HSW | 02.01.2007
In the latest of his articles for students of the NEBOSH National Diploma, Lawrence Bamber studies some classic legal cases. He also takes a look at the cases that underpin some of the basic health and safety duties, including an employer's duty of care and responsibility for creating a safe system of work.
Is fashionable PPE effective?
Chris Rochester | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Chris Rochester asks if fashionably styled PPE and work clothing is likely to be less effective at protecting employees or more so
How the government responds to civil crises
John Norton-Doyle | Features | HSW | 01.01.2007
Buncefield, foot-and-mouth disease, the London bombings, widespread floods, avian flu threats - the last few years have provided no shortage of reasons to make emergency planning a priority. John Norton-Doyle reviews the government's new arrangements for responding to civil crises.
Safety breaches in manufacturing SMEs
Lynne Oliver | Features | HSW | 04.12.2006
A survey by City & Guilds, carried out in order to understand both the challenges SMEs face when it comes to meeting HSE requirements and their employees' experience of workplace safety, finds them unprepared for the consequences of any safety breaches. Lynne Oliver analyses the findings.
Workplace transport: ruling out risk December
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
In the third of our series, Louis Wustemann considers training and instructions to promote safe behaviour around site vehicles.
CDM 2007: the new rules
Paul Reeve | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
The revised CDM Regulations are only five months away. Paul Reeve explains the key changes for anyone in construction.
Winter driving hazards
Charles Davis | Features | HSW | 02.12.2006
Road risks exist all year round; some are constant and some change with the seasons. In winter, many elements make driving particularly hazardous. So as the nights draw in, Charles Davis of RoSPA navigates employers safely through the season's driving hazards.
Site specifics: lifting operations
Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 01.12.2006
Bridget Leathley discovers that web guidance on lifting operations is not always within easy reach.
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