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Safety culture: Stretch to the limit 03/02/2010

Safety culture: Stretch to the limit
Tim Marsh discusses new thinking on safety culture, which practitioners can use to inform and convince senior management, and those holding the purse strings, that the recession is no time to cut back on, or abandon, good health and safety practices.

 

Outdoor working: Under the weather 03/02/2010

Outdoor working: Under the weather
Blizzards, black ice and buffeting winds have affected most people around the country in recent weeks, and none more so than those who had to go out to work in such hostile conditions. Melvyn French provides a reminder of the havoc winter weather can wreak on open-air work, and the measures that can be taken to mitigate its effects.

 

Work at height: A high watermark 03/02/2010

Work at height: A high watermark
It is coming up to five years since the Work at Height Regulations came into force amid a storm of controversy. But have they had the desired effect in improving standards of safety? Mike Battman believes they have albeit with some retuning required.

 

Agency workers: Temping fate 25/01/2010

Agency workers: Temping fate
David Branson looks at recent employment-law cases concerning agency/contract workers that could spill over into the area of health and safety law, and discusses these implications in the context of the roles and responsibilities of the various parties involved when contract labour is used.

 

The financial climate: Survive and thrive 20/01/2010

The financial climate: Survive and thrive
It has been a year of doom and gloom for the economy, and jobs in health and safety are still thin on the ground. Nevertheless, say James Clayton and Scott Nadler, the recession has presented practitioners with opportunities that are just waiting to be grabbed.

 

Winter maintenance: On thin ice 06/01/2010

Winter maintenance: On thin ice
Icy conditions are prevalent at this time of year, making winter gritting an issue for employers and premises owners. Alastair Kight explains what is required to fulfil your duty of care and prevent accidents in slippery conditions.

 

Airborne Hazardous Substances: Unnatural causes 06/01/2010

Airborne Hazardous Substances: Unnatural causes
Russell Dunne explores the types, common uses and lifecycle of machine-made mineral fibres (MMMF), looking at how the COSHH Regulations specifically apply, and suggesting practical advice for the different occasions when workers will be exposed to MMMF.

 

Road safety: Miles and milestones 29/12/2009

Road safety: Miles and milestones
Dr Will Murray and Paul Gallemore outline the key stages and lessons of one company’s efforts to improve its management of occupational road safety.

 


 
      

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Fit-note system to come into force this spring
Yet another example of the Government spotting a real problem and then passing legislation intended to cure it and making a hugely worse problem. Why does this continually happen-because they consult

Research/reports: Trust in turbines
To put this in perspective you should read and then print a critical review of the above written by real medical doctors, one being our very own Dr Chris Hanning. He and his colleagues were not commis

Fit-note system to come into force this spring
Where does it say that employers "HAVE to do a risk assessment" on someone returning to work. This may well be the implied outcome of a return-to-work interview and appropriate pastoral care, but the

Guidance: The role of asbestos surveys
Is P402 accreditation deemed sufficient when coupled with an appropriate level and amount of experience?

Fit-note system to come into force this spring
It made me laugh, when I thought about a visit to the hospital last year and a sign read: 'If you are suffering from flu symptoms go home immdediately'.

Fit-note system to come into force this spring
This has not been thought through. There is a possibility of companies with massively compromised workforces, people still at work but not functioning well. Many will hang on at work, especially if

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