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  • The profession - Peak practice

    Features - 5 June 2013 - 0comments

    The remodelled IOSH Code of Conduct came into force on 4 March this year. Stephen Asbury examines its wide scope and highlights some key issues for practitioners to consider.

  • Overseas legislation - Keep it in the family

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    In the absence of globally applicable health and safety laws, says Kevin Elliott, multinational organisations would be wise to share and adopt in the UK learnings from their overseas operations, even if they are run by separate legal entities.

  • Schools - Health and safety management - The blackboard bungle?

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    Wayne Dunning reports on a round-table discussion, involving experts from both the education and OSH fields, which explored concerns about mismanagement of health and safety in school academies.

  • Manufacturing - EMF - May the fourth be with you

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    Negotiations among the European Commission, Parliament and Council on the Electromagnetic Fields Directive concluded in April and, once the text is approved, EU Member States will have to transpose the directive into national law by 1 July 2016. Terry Woolmer tells us everything we’ve always wanted to know about the fourth and final physical-agents directive but were afraid to ask.

  • Safety culture – Covert operation

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    When endeavouring to develop a better safety culture, many organisations neglect to dig deep into the DNA of the business and so end up only effecting change at a superficial level. Richard Byrne considers a couple of generic management models that could assist in addressing some of those deep-seated, but often hidden, problems.

  • The profession – Convert to type

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    In 1999, SHP published a pair of articles on how typical modi operandi of safety and health practitioners could unintentionally undermine the valuable work they did. Fast-forward 14 years – has the style in which practitioners carry out their business moved on? Michael Emery reflects on the state of the profession then and now, and on how it needs to develop.

  • Utilities and offshore - Power struggles

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    Dr Chris Ide provides an overview of the health and safety hazards that workers in the utilities and offshore sectors can face, looking at issues specific to the different types of workplaces involved, as well as the problems that are common to all of them.

  • SHE 2013 - Health and Well-Being - Battle plans

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    Bill Fox takes stock of how far we have come in our understanding and management of violence risks and shares his views on strategies that work best.

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    It’s all very well trying to impart knowledge and skills in your health and safety training sessions but if you don’t focus equally heavily on the third element in the learning experience – attitude – your sessions will sink like a stone. Matt Cleve outlines what needs to be done to engage even the most jaded employees.

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    Jon Cooper and Lisa Lewins consider the way in which investigations are conducted under the Work-related Deaths Protocol, analysing its strengths, weaknesses and overall effectiveness.

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