A system of unannounced inspections by health and safety regulators can not only improve injury rates in the organisations visited but also has no adverse effect on their bottom line, a US study has found.
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.
The chief executive of German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp’s Italian operation has been sentenced to 16 and a half years in prison after a court in Turin convicted him of murder charges relating to a fire that killed seven workers in 2007.
The HSE has announced the broad areas of investigation that will feed into a report on the implications for the UK of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear power-plant crisis.
Chinese workers at a factory making touch-screen devices for Apple have aired their health and safety grievances in a letter sent to the US company’s CEO, Steve Jobs.
The campaign for the return of common sense in the application of health, safety and environmental rules has made its way across the pond, with the announcement by Barack Obama that he is to get rid of regulations that are “just plain dumb”.
A committee of MPs has upheld the UK’s offshore regulatory standards as robust and fit for purpose but is concerned that the industry is failing to anticipate and plan for high-consequence, low-probability events.
Plans for a universal qualification and training framework for health and safety professionals across Europe have been unveiled, with the aim of improving international recognition of practitioners’ skills.
The organisation that represents travel agents in the UK is calling for new European rules to ensure that more responsibility for health and safety lies with suppliers of holiday services.
The Minister for Labour Affairs in Ireland has announced the publication of the Chemicals (Amendment) Bill 2010, which requires manufacturers and importers to notify the European Chemicals Agency about the classification of all hazardous substances that they possess.
The actions of “multiple companies and work teams” contributed to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and fire in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year, a report released by BP has concluded.
BP Products North America Inc. (BP) has consented to pay a penalty of $50.6m (£32.5m) over safety issues stemming from the 2005 Texas City oil refinery explosion.
Behind the glitz and the glamour of events like the World Cup and the Olympic Games there are workers around the world sweating blood to fulfil orders for major sportswear brands and forced to work in unsafe factories for paltry pay packets.
Seven men have been convicted more than 25 years after a gas-plant leak in Bhopal, central India amounted to the biggest industrial disaster the world has ever known.
Work-related stress is as great a concern for European managers as workplace accidents, according to the results of a comprehensive pan-European survey.
A US federation of health and safety committees has voiced its concern that the loss of 11 lives following the BP Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion in April has been forgotten amid the subsequent environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Outgoing US president George Bush is winding up his time at top with a move that typifies his less-than-exemplary approach to the health and safety of his country’s workforce.
The US government is proposing that workplace hazard standards must be subjected to increased scrutiny by both experts and the public before being adopted, possibly making it more difficult to protect workers from exposure to carcinogens and other toxic materials, Associated Press reports.
New EU driving licences that carry drivers’ vision-correction details, plus compulsory eye tests, are expected to significantly reduce the number of road accidents, conference delegates have heard.
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has published new medical treatment guidelines for providing care to workers with chronic pain. The new guidelines, which represent the latest chapter in ACOEM's comprehensive publication Occupational Medicine Practice Guidelines, are available online now; in September, a print version will be available.
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a new online resource to help employers in their employment of veterans with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), two increasingly common battlefield conditions.
In a response to this week's Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, announcing a decline in worker fatalities, U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao issued the following statement: "This is continued evidence that the initiatives and programs to protect workers' safety and health, designed by and implemented in this administration, are indeed working.
A new survey of the earning capacity of safety and health practitioners has found that the average salary of these professionals is just £25,000 – in New Zealand.
