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Government report recommends more silicosis surveillance and a return to previously monitored patients to reduce risks of the disease

Silicosis should be included as a notifiable disease in the Health Protection (Notification) Regulations 2010 and people who work in at-risk industries should be under health surveillance in GP surgeries, a government body has said. Read More

HSE: Food manufacturing sector health and safety ‘needs to improve’

Companies and people working in food manufacturing are being told they must pay closer attention to how they manage workplace health risks or face serious penalties. Read More

“Choose a career that motivates you” Kären Clayton HSE

Kären Clayton is deputy director of the chemicals regulation division at the Health and Safety Executive – a role which Read More

Health risk focus at the HSE’s Health and Safety Laboratory

In the second in a series of articles on HSL’s new centres, Nick Warburton speaks to Clare Forshaw, Head of Read More

The importance of occupational factors in cause of ill health

New research, published in medical journal The Lancet, has highlighted the importance of occupational factors in the causes of ill Read More

Safe and healthy travel abroad

As the world’s largest health and safety professional membership organisation, IOSH members are increasingly travelling and working overseas. Simon Hatson Read More



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