Spencer, Duncan | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine
Published: 10.11.2008
Some health and safety managers become frustrated because their management boards don't appear to understand the challenges they face. In the first of two articles on briefing senior executives on safety management Duncan Spencer suggests an alternative to RIDDOR stats.
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Machine mods led to blade accident
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Published: 10.11.2008
Adair Lewis previews coming changes to the industry guidance on fire prevention.
Cold comfort: protecting workers
Published: 10.11.2008
As winter weather bites, Becky Allen looks at protecting outdoor workers from the chill.
Published: 10.11.2008
Shelley Atkinson-Frost explains how to locate buried services safely.
Safety podcasts: hearing voices
Published: 10.11.2008
Bridget Leathley reviews the latest free audio safety downloads, and their different presentat ...
Published: 10.11.2008
In the latest of his series for NEBOSH diploma students, Lawrence Bamber supports this issue's ...
Case study: Barrington's concrete results
This year, CEMEX UK's Safety Sword was handed to the Barrington cement plant and quarry. The Cambridg ...
Case study: And the winners are...
Wales' water utility literally prizes its contractors safety initiatives, as Sara Bean discovers.
Case study: Leeds Hospitals' burning issue
"The main thing about the new Order," observes Peter Aldridge, fire safety manager ...
Case study: Liverpool Council's ticket to drive
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If two heads are better than one, how much better are 14? David Gault would argue 14 work well when i ...
TUC publishes carcinogens guide
The TUC has published a new guide to cancer in the workplace. Occupational Cancer - A Workplace Gu ...
Worker crushed between cherry picker and rafter
The HSE has confirmed that a construction worker killed in August at a site in Oxford was crushed ...
A new chemicals at work portal has been added to the HSE website.The page provides links to ...
The government has published a new booklet to help guesthouses comply with the fire safety regulat ...
Stockline explosion inquiry ends
The public inquiry into the Stockline explosion that killed nine workers in Scotland has ended. Ch ...
Question: Pigeon Excrement
What PPE should contractors working in a roof space containing pigeon excrement wear? They are not removing it just working in the area.
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