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<i>When an organisation experiences a huge crisis, who looks after those looking after the business during this difficult time? Professor Kerry Gardiner discusses the impact of stress and sleep deprivation on such individuals and suggests how health and safety practitioners can contribute to planning and executing a crisis management programme.</i><br> Read More
March 3, 2010
Looking after people's health and well-being via the workplace is moving up the business agenda but more evidence of its positive effects is necessary if employers are to embrace it fully. Read More
February 22, 2010
Evidence of how the UK's offshore working-time arrangements impact onthe health and safety, and performance, of North Sea oil and gasworkers has been reviewed in a report published by the HSE. Read More
February 3, 2010
<span style="font-style: italic;">Blizzards, black ice and buffeting winds have affected most people around the country in recent weeks, and none more so than those who had to go out to work in such hostile conditions. Melvyn French provides a reminder of the havoc winter weather can wreak on open-air work, and the measures that can be taken to mitigate its effects. </span><br> Read More
January 29, 2010
A community enforcement officer has won damages after hislocal-authority employer gave him poor-fitting, second-hand body armourto carry out his work. Read More
December 10, 2009
Homer Simpson ﾖ perhaps the most accident-prone safety inspector of alltime ﾖ is appearing on a range of new posters from RoSPA. Read More
August 9, 2009
A Dorset haulage company, one of its directors, and an employee have been cleared of corporate manslaughter charges over the death of two people in a road crash involving one of its vehicles.<br><br> Read More
July 23, 2009
Network Rail has been fined £70,000 for failing to adequately maintain a level crossing, which caused a train to derail.<br><br> Read More
July 15, 2009
The Fleet Safety Forum is urging fleet managers to tackle the silent killer of driver tiredness in a campaign launched this week - and is offering the first 50 companies to get in touch a free information pack. <br><br><br> Read More
June 23, 2009
A new IOSH guide to help local councillors better understand the health and safety responsibilities they have within their authority has received a warm welcome at its launch.<br><br> Read More