July 3, 2024
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual statistics on work-related fatalities, with 138 workers killed in work-related accidents, up from 136 last year. Read More
November 23, 2023
Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23 as construction sector reports rise in fatalities. Read More
November 17, 2023
The new President of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) is calling on the profession to challenge itself to develop new ways of tackling the “unacceptably high” number of work-related deaths, injuries and ill health. Read More
September 13, 2023
A waste management firm has been fined a total of £3 million following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents. Read More
November 20, 2021
According to the HSE, working at height remains one of the biggest cause of fatalities and major injuries in the workplace. Read More
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
April 7, 2017
As with last year, International Workers’ Memorial Day (IWMD) 2017 is set to be observed on Friday the 28 Read More
March 20, 2015
Melvyn French argues that current efforts to reduce the number of workplace deaths from accidents are failing. Unless practitioners drill Read More
July 7, 2009
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has finally published the long-awaited report into the underlying causes of fatal accidents in the construction industry. Read More