IOSH has broadly welcomed Prime Minister David Cameron’s announcement of a review into growing risk aversion and fear of being sued in the UK.

Do you have the experience to advise top-level decision-makers? Would you like to share your expertise with others while learning new skills that you can use to develop your career? Do you want to find out what it’s like to influence a global professional membership organisation? If so, then IOSH’s new Networks and International Committee could be the place for you.

Construction workers have strongly endorsed a series of behavioural-safety events held across Scotland in May.

With the emergency Budget now out of the way, there are additional pressures on the public services to achieve even better value for money and greater efficiencies.

Organised by the IOSH Food and Drink group, with support from the HSE’s Agriculture and Food Sector and the Food and Drink Manufacture Health and Safety Forum, this year’s national food and drink manufacturing conference takes place at the Oxford Belfry Hotel on 28-29 September.

IOSH member Brian Toft, professor of patient safety at Coventry University, has been awarded an OBE for services to health care in the Queen’s Birthday honours.

The House of Lords was the prestigious setting for the IOSH Honorary Vice-Presidents’ lunch in May.

IOSH vice-president Andy Lo has been strengthening relationships with health and safety professionals in the Asia-Pacific region.

UK employers need to be more aware when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) – that was the message of Rob Todd, an expert in health and safety in hostile environments, when he visited IOSH HQ in April.

If you work in the food and drink industry, you’ll want to be at the Oxford Belfry Hotel on 28 and 29 September for the National Food and Drink Manufacturing Conference.