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IOSH manifesto: Political push to ‘create a healthier UK’ 28/01/2010

IOSH manifesto: Political push to ‘create a healthier UK’
Members of Parliament have been asked to do their bit to help make the UK a healthier and safer place to work.

 


Publication: Be the best with our latest book 31/12/2009

Publication: Be the best with our latest book

Be the best: how to become a world-class health and safety professional isn’t a typical health and safety book. It doesn’t tell you why you should manage health and safety, or even what you should be managing. There are plenty of other books that do that.

 


Free resources: The health and safety sales pitch 30/12/2009

Free resources: The health and safety sales pitch
One of the biggest challenges IOSH members tackle on a daily basis is selling in positive health and safety messages to colleagues, clients, managers and directors. We know that good health and safety management helps businesses run efficiently, and your professional body has free resources to help you prove it.

 


Rail industry conference: Skills shortage could affect rail’s future 29/12/2009

Rail industry conference: Skills shortage could affect rail’s future
British industry could find itself with major problems unless more is done to protect the skills that once made it a world leader.

 


IOSH 10: Have a brush with the law at IOSH 10 24/12/2009

IOSH 10: Have a brush with the law at IOSH 10
If you want to brush up on the latest legal developments affecting the health and safety world the IOSH 10 Conference will be the place to be in March.

 


CPD: Help ensure humans aren’t 23/12/2009

CPD: Help ensure humans aren’t
If you want to learn more about why and where people make potentially deadly errors in the workplace, IOSH has a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course for you.

 


President-elect’s address 22/12/2009

President-elect’s address
New president-elect Steve Granger says it is time for health and safety professionals to demonstrate the value of the advice they give.

 


Stop taking the myth: MPs conquer the conker fears 14/12/2009

Stop taking the myth: MPs conquer the conker fears
MPs and peers came together for a charity conker shoot-out, organised by IOSH, to show that health and safety has never ‘banned’ the game.

 




 
       

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    Fit-note system to come into force this spring
    Yet another example of the Government spotting a real problem and then passing legislation intended to cure it and making a hugely worse problem. Why does this continually happen-because they consult

    Research/reports: Trust in turbines
    To put this in perspective you should read and then print a critical review of the above written by real medical doctors, one being our very own Dr Chris Hanning. He and his colleagues were not commis

    Fit-note system to come into force this spring
    Where does it say that employers "HAVE to do a risk assessment" on someone returning to work. This may well be the implied outcome of a return-to-work interview and appropriate pastoral care, but the

    Guidance: The role of asbestos surveys
    Is P402 accreditation deemed sufficient when coupled with an appropriate level and amount of experience?

    Fit-note system to come into force this spring
    It made me laugh, when I thought about a visit to the hospital last year and a sign read: 'If you are suffering from flu symptoms go home immdediately'.

    Fit-note system to come into force this spring
    This has not been thought through. There is a possibility of companies with massively compromised workforces, people still at work but not functioning well. Many will hang on at work, especially if

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