Rise in workplace deaths revealed in 2017/18 workplace fatality figures
July 4, 2018
Annual figures for work-related injuries for 2017/18, released today by the HSE, reveal that 144 workers were fatally injured between April 2017 and March 2018 (a rate of 0.45 per 100,000 workers). Read More
North Sea safety is ‘paramount’ says Sturgeon
May 8, 2018
Scotland’s first minister has insisted the safety of offshore workers in the North Sea must be paramount, as the 30th Read More
Root cause: going beyond ‘human error’
November 25, 2016
In the first article I wrote, based on the media’s quest to find a cause for the Croydon tram crash, Read More
A brave new future
January 5, 2016
After 32 years, SHP’s print edition has closed and, as you might expect, the final issue is somewhat of a retrospective. Read More
Throwback Thursday: Industrial safety & health management
August 6, 2015
In January 1990, John Ballard analysed industrial safety and health management of the offshore oil industry in the wake of Read More
Five steps to maturity: measuring human factors
February 5, 2015
The Keil Centre has developed a card-sort method to measure Human Factors Maturity, which it argues will help businesses build Read More
Redressing the balance between safety and productivity
October 14, 2014
Lord Cullen’s Piper Alpha report said that, “it is essential to create a corporate atmosphere or culture in which safety Read More
Offshore: Learning from past mistakes
September 23, 2014
By Jon Cooper and Steven Brooker: Last year HSE chair Judith Hackitt commented at the Piper 25 conference that, Read More