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Workplace support scheme targets people with mental-health disabilities
09 March 2010
Too few people with severe mental-health conditions are receiving funding from the Government’s Access to Work programme.

Industry urged to share accident-prevention info
09 March 2010
The HSE has revamped its Safety Bulletin system, under which industry is alerted to problems with equipment, process, procedures and substances that may lead to injury.

Worker entangled in unguarded drill
09 March 2010
A construction products manufacturer has been fined £40,000 after a worker’s arm was pulled into an unguarded rotating drill.

Worker buried alive after unsupported trench collapsed
08 March 2010
Workers at a construction site used an excavator to rescue one of their colleagues who was buried under falling debris after a trench collapsed.

International safety systems: Workin’ USA
03 March 2010
It is exactly 40 years since the United States’ OSH Act and the country’s first nationwide approach to workplace safety were introduced. The American system of workplace safety is, however, very different to that in the UK, so James Pomeroy compares the two at a time when many leading industry figures on this side of the pond are asking whether we need to change our approach.

Training: Higher education
03 March 2010
Fed up of flipcharts? Sick of slides? Training doesn’t have to be tedious, as a trio of creative and engaging new methods investigated by Tina Weadick and Vic Motune demonstrates.

Guidance: Safe storage in the energy sector
08 March 2010
New guidance on the engineering of storage tanks for liquefied gas has been published by the Engineering Equipment & Materials Users’ Association (EEMUA).

Free information: Managing risks in health care
05 March 2010
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has recently updated the health-care section on its website to include a broader variety of good-practice information.