Karl Simons awarded OBE for services to mental health in New Year Honours list
December 31, 2020
SHP exclusively caught up with Karl Simons, Chief Health, Safety & Wellbeing Officer at Thames Water, who has just been recognised in the Queens New Year’s Honours list to receive the award of OBE for his ‘Services to Mental Health Policy’. Read More
No need for speed: Looking back Road Safety Week at Thames Water
December 23, 2020
Gordon Rickards, Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager for Operations Support at Thames Water, explains how the business refocused it’s attention on road safety during Road Safety Week. Read More
SHP Awards
November 3, 2020
We’re celebrating the achievements of the brightest and most passionate health, safety and workplace wellbeing professionals; from young, upcoming rising stars to our most influential ambassadors. Read More
Safer Highways announces strong speaker line-up for its virtual mental health summit
October 28, 2020
Karl Simons, Professor Dame Carol Black, Bill Hill and Simon Blake will speak at the unveiling of the results of Safer Highways second annual report into standards around the provision of support in the field of workplace mental health. Read More
What3words: The app that could save the lives of lone and rural workers
July 28, 2020
What3words has divided the world into 57 trillion 3m by 3m squares and given each a unique three word ‘address’. It means, a person’s exact location can be pinpointed more accurately than a street name or postcode in the event of an emergency. Read More
SHP launches Safety & Health Podcast
July 24, 2020
That’s why SHP has launched the Safety & Health Podcast to deliver the news, insights and legislation through interviews, discussions and panel debates with some of the profession’s leaders, influencers and innovators. Episode 1 features an exclusive interview with SHP readers’ Most Influential Person in Health & Safety, Thames Water’s Chief Health, Safety and Security Officer, Karl Simons. Read More
‘Placing health & safety at the forefront of the procurement decision making process’. Thames Water’s Karl Simons discusses the AMP6 Engagement Strategy
July 2, 2020
SHP caught up with Thames Water’s Karl Simons to learn about the culmination of a major five-year investment programme titled AMP6, that would see a radical shift in direction and lead to outcomes never seen by a major capital programme before. Read More
Research study on Mental Health First Aid in business launched
April 7, 2020
The Centre for Mental Health and London South Bank University are embarking on a ground-breaking study of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England training in UK workplaces. Read More
UK Water Industry releases position on Mental Health through ‘Thriving at Work’ survey results
January 6, 2020
Analysis shows that 87% of the Water Industry have achieved compliance against the core standards and 68% have gone further and achieved compliance against both the core and enhanced standards. Read More
Thriving at Work mental health survey results released
December 6, 2019
Highways sector comes together at House of Lords to hear results of the Thriving at Work Mental Health survey.
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