Brave new workplace

Allen, Becky | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 14.10.2008

How will the world of health and safety have changed in 10 years' time? Becky Allen looks at two attempts by researchers to model the shape of things to come.

LATEST PROSECUTIONS

Council penalised for death-risk theatre lift


14.10.2008

Carmarthenshire County Council has been fined £45,000 for a potentially fatal incident in wh ...

Offshore firms fined £1.2 million over death of worker


10.10.2008

Offshore operator Talisman Energy UK and contractor Aker Kvaerner Offshore Partner have together b ...

£250,000 fine for lorry crushing death


09.10.2008

A haulage firm has been fined £250,000 over the death of a driver who was crushed between tw ...

Roofing firm left 50m-long edges unprotected


08.10.2008

Roofing contractor Abercorn Homes has been handed a £23,000 bill for unsafe work at height a ...

Updated: Director disqualified for illegal asbestos work


03.10.2008

A director of two asbestos firms must pay penalties of £44,000 and has been disqualified fro ...

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LATEST FEATURES

Brave new workplace

Allen, Becky | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 14.10.2008

How will the world of health and safety have changed in 10 years' time? Becky Allen looks at t ...

Site specifics: lone working

Leathley, Bridget | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 08.09.2008

Even if most of the time you work in a busy office or factory, you may be a lone worker at some time. ...

SMEs: risky business

Reeve, Paul | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 08.09.2008

Most people know that risk assessment is a lynchpin of health and safety at work, and the HSE says "f ...

Pass it on: cascade training

Smith, Paul | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 05.09.2008

Cascade or train-the-trainer systems involve training a small group who then pass on what they know t ...

Taming the revision monster

Arp, Dee | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine

Published: 05.09.2008

Exams for professional safety qualifications are no different from any others. They create the same a ...

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LATEST CASE STUDIES

Case study: Barrington's concrete results


08.08.2008

This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridg ...

Case study: And the winners are...


04.07.2008

Wales' water utility literally prizes its contractors safety initiatives, as Sara Bean discovers.

Case study: Leeds Hospitals' burning issue


06.03.2008

"The main thing about the new Order," observes Peter Aldridge, fire safety manager ...

Case study: Liverpool Council's ticket to drive


14.01.2008

The corporate manslaughter legislation has put driver safety in the spotlight. Jocelyn Dorrell ...

Case study: club together


11.01.2008

If two heads are better than one, how much better are 14? David Gault would argue 14 work well when i ...

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LATEST NEWS

HPA warns on UV exposure from lightbulbs


15.10.2008

The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has issued a warning about working too close to energy-sav ...

Employers "badly failing" workers with arthritis


15.10.2008

More than 40% of people with arthritis are no longer in work and of these 70% cited arthritis as t ...

Offences Bill clears Lords hurdle


13.10.2008

The Health and Safety (Offences) Bill took a step closer to becoming law on 10 October after it pa ...

Revised ELCI guide published


07.10.2008

Following changes to the rules on displaying employers' liability insurance certificates, the HSE ...

HAVS forces 25-year-old out of job


06.10.2008

Norfolk County Council has paid former roadworker Adrian Bideau £262,000 in compensation aft ...

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Q&As

Question: FLT Training

It has been suggested to me that persons over 40 operating a FLT has to be re-tested. Could this possibly be true?

Oct 07 2008 11:12AM

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LATEST LEGISLATION

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act


15.10.2007

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act introduces a new offence, across the UK, for ...

Control of Noise at Work Regulations


15.10.2007

These regulations, which came into force generally in 2006, will apply to exposure to noise at work i ...

Smoke-free (Premises and Enforcement) Regulations 2006


17.05.2007

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Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007


17.05.2007

www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20070320.htm ...

Smoke-free (Exemptions and Vehicles) Regulations 2007


17.05.2007

www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si2007/20070765.htm ...

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