Technology giant Apple has revealed the names of all its suppliers and manufacturing partners, together with the results of its supply-chain audits of compliance with health, safety and environmental standards, after concern had been expressed over working conditions and worker well-being at some of its Asian facilities.
Thousands of people who provided assistance in the aftermath of the September 11 attack in New York are suffering significant ill-health effects, the US government has revealed in the run-up to the 10th anniversary of the atrocity.
A health and safety self-regulation model widely used in the United States, and which, some argue, is slowly being adopted in the UK, has been heavily criticised by a leading American news organisation.
Physical therapist Cara O’Connell, writing in the Asia-Pacific Journal, draws on current Japanese and international research and literature to provide information that may be of value in protecting the health of Fukushima workers and others who experience extreme heat and radiation.
The leading safety organisations in the UK and the US have come together to launch an initiative to promote the contribution health and safety can make to business sustainability.
A firm of consulting engineers and its senior project engineer have
been cleared of failing to design a safe system of work by not
designing an adequate support system for landings and staircases.
Berkshire-based Mowlem Railways, part of £2bn construction giant Mowlem, was fined a total of £75,000 at Belfast Crown Court on 10 March, the largest-ever fine in Northern Ireland for a breach of workplace health and safety legislation.
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.
Measuring worker exposure to noise, and the damage it does, can be very difficult in some industries. Here, Peter Zymanczyk looks at how studies into hearing loss among firefighters have revealed the sources of the damage and how best to combat it.
Health and safety in Nigeria is set to progress a great deal further with the opening of a dedicated training suite by a UK-based provider in one of the country’s major cities.
Health and safety training firm SMTS has opened a new office in Nigeria and will partner with the Lagos Safety Commission to run courses in the region.
Ireland’s minister for agriculture, food and the marine, Simon Coveney TD, has called on the health and safety of farm workers to be addressed through more international cooperation and sharing of knowledge.
Too few businesses have put in place disaster plans and those that have are not testing them properly. That was the blunt message that invited attendees to Cardinus Risk Management’s Health and Safety Forum, recently heard.
