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International safety systems: Workin’ USA 03/03/2010

International safety systems: Workin’ USA
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 03/03/2010

Training: Higher education
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.

 

IOSH conference 2010: Blazing a trail in fire safety 03/03/2010

IOSH conference 2010: Blazing a trail in fire safety
Designing safer buildings requires the fire-safety engineer to gain a full understanding of the user’s needs and intentions in running the building, as Andy Passingham explains.

 

Warehousing: Safety in store 24/02/2010

Warehousing: Safety in store
With thousands of work-related injuries recorded in the warehousing, storage and road-haulage sectors every year, regular inspection of storage equipment is essential to ensure employees’ safety, says Alex Ashcroft.

 

Work at height: Confronting competency 17/02/2010

Work at height: Confronting competency
In 2007/08, falls from height accounted for one in five recorded fatalities among employees and nearly half of deaths among the self-employed.1 Peter Bennett looks at two key issues in relation to working at height – training and competence – and unravels what they mean in practice for workers, supervisors and managers.

 

Construction/utilities plant: The tipping point 17/02/2010

Construction/utilities plant: The tipping point
John Mcilhagga describes how his company worked together with clients, suppliers and equipment manufacturers to address a perennial problem in the construction and utilities industries – instability of mini-excavators.

 

Work at height: Collective bargain 17/02/2010

Work at height: Collective bargain
Gary Gallagher considers the role of collective protection in relation to the hierarchy of risk management contained in the Work at Height Regulations, and stresses the importance of scaffold planning and product selection at the outset.

 

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.

 


 
      

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Worker buried alive after unsupported trench collapsed
Andy, I hope your not expecting any of the readers to emapthise with Mr Hill because the HSE dragged their heels? Not the first time we hear of trench collapse and it won't be the last unless the HSE

Worker buried alive after unsupported trench collapsed
Addressed to Stuart Curtis; You may well ask Stuart. The answer is that despite this incident ocurring in October 2007, the HSE choce not to interview those involved until sometime in 2008 and despite

Worker buried alive after unsupported trench collapsed
still there are compromises why it safety measures?

Inspector boob causes regulator to back down over workplace calendar
over zealous, what an understatement its PC BS once again.

Worker buried alive after unsupported trench collapsed
re stuart curtis
erm.... why do we need a court report to warn us of the dangers of excavations? A competent H&S professional would already be aware of the hazard and risk

Untied scaffolding collapsed into residential street
It was extremely fortunate that nobody was killed in this accident, which was entirely foreseeable. This is just another example of contractors flouting the law and reinforces the requirement for scaf

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