IOSH recently welcomed its former chief executive, John Barrell, as a new honorary vice-president (HVP) during the launch of its Li£e Savings campaign at the House of Lords.

More than 1600 schoolchildren from the Inverness area learnt why building sites aren’t places for playground games at an event recently.

IOSH is driving home the message that good health and safety can mean savings for both the business sector and the public purse.

People tasked with keeping crowds and athletes safe at sporting events are being urged to play a part in IOSH’s newest group.

Key figures from Middle East organisations gathered in May to share ideas on cutting workplace injury and ill health in the region.

Cutting inspections in high-risk industries to “ease the regulatory burden on business” will risk lives, IOSH warned in its recent response to a Government announcement on health and safety.

The start of April will see IOSH extend its reach to members in some of Scotland’s most remote areas, with a new Highlands and Islands Branch.

This year’s IOSH Middle East Annual Conference is taking place at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City next month. Delegates at the event on 4 May will receive updates on recent health and safety developments in the region.

Sharpening the focus on business health and safety in an age of austerity is the aim of a Safety Masterclass event in Ireland next month.

Health and safety experts from some of the railway industry’s biggest companies came together on 2 March to talk about how they could cut the millions of pounds and hours lost each year because of work-related ill health.