In a new feature on the website we’ll be looking back at some of SHP’s earlier issues and highlighting interesting articles we find. Today it’s a brief history of SHP, and how it became the magazine it is now.
In April 1989 the editorial team announced a name change, saying “The new title more accurately reflects the contents of the journal which have been developed to meet the needs of its widening readership.
“Ever since the journal was first published in January 1983, when ‘Safety Surveyor’ and ‘Protection’ were combined, attention has been given to occupational health subjects as well as those dealing with safety hazards which pose an immediate threat to workers.”
In the May issue that followed, features included ‘Screening for Health’, which stated that “Illness rather than accidents is the major cause of death and lost working days” (Not much has changed); The TUC had launched a major occupational safety and health campaign; and an in depth article looked at the management of the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH). In August this year we looked back at the 25 years since the COSHH regulations came into force.
If you have your own memories about SHP for Throwback Thursday, please send them to [email protected] and we’ll post the best ones.
