Practitioners should not be afraid to challenge regulators over decisions with which they take issue – but just as important as why you challenge is how you challenge.
A busy Occupational Health Theatre was put straight on a few confusing aspects of the 2010 Equality Act by Cynthia Atwell OBE, a well-known occupational health nurse and consultant, and then treated to an analysis of what makes good work by Barry Wilkes, a NEBOSH development manager.
The trend for companies facing health and safety investigations and potential prosecutions to go into liquidation in order to avoid punishment is increasingly common, but there are moral and legal arguments why practitioners should think twice before following this approach.
David Branson compares the legal concepts of ‘reasonably practicable’ and ‘reasonably foreseeable’, in respect of breaches of health and safety law and civil liability for accidents, and explores the changing interpretation of both terms by the courts.
Even though many of the UK’s laws in fire safety have been in place for several years, there is still considerable confusion among duty-holders as to their relevant responsibilities. Laura Cameron provides a quick overview.
An HSE specialist inspector in human and organisational factors has won the William Floyd Award for outstanding and innovative contributions to ergonomics and human factors..
The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has published new best-practice guidelines for retailers, aimed at increasing awareness of the impact of violence against retail staff.
Seven out of ten people who were unable to work due to stress returned to work before the end of the deferred period in the last year, according to Legal & General.
The Door & Hardware Federation (DHF) has issued a reminder to those responsible for installing and maintaining industrial powered rolling shutters to ensure they are correctly installed and regularly maintained.
Northern Ireland’s health and safety minister Arlene Foster and agriculture minister Michelle O’Neill have launched a Farm Safety Partnership to reduce the number of fatal work-related accidents among farmers.
Behavioural safety has a place in the grand scheme of things, but focusing too much on individual actions and errors will result in missing the big picture in my opinion. I prefer to adopt the...
Vulnerability to prosecution of SHE managers and Directors seems to me a side issue.
The reason for the relative* increase in accidents and occupational fatalities, since 1970, results principally...
Someone should forward the above article to Merlin Attractions Operations Ltd regarding the Warick Castle fatality.
Upon review they may decide not to appeal.
I hope they do appeal and incur further...
Ray
HSE deserves the credit for publishing sensible guidance on this issue16 years ago, well before Lofstedt. But guidance on its own is clearly not enough. The problem with portable appliance testing...
As a test case for Northern Ireland, it is important to prosecute a no-contest "bang to rights" case to establish the basis of that law prior to having judges adjudicate (in later cases) on the finer...
