Construction: a risky business
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
There’s an app for that
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
Explosion at West Bengal firecracker factory prompts call for greater enforcement
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
Explosion at West Bengal firecracker factory prompts call for greater enforcement
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
The West Bengal government led by the Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) and West Bengal police have been accused by opposition parties of failing to take sufficient action to close down illegal firecracker factories after a massive blast at a firecracker plant at a village in Duttapukur claimed the lives of at least nine people.
Cost of living fuels work from home boom
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 September 2023
HSE inspections up, but prosecutions down over past year
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 September 2023
2.5m adults in UK economically inactive due to long-term ill health
By Belinda Liversedge on 09 August 2023
Mentorship programme to help women ‘break down barriers’ into health and safety careers
By Belinda Liversedge on 07 August 2023
Rajasthan and Karnataka become first states to offer gig workers social security and insurance benefits
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 August 2023
Home but not alone
By Phil Pinnington, British Safety Council on 20 September 2023
The post-pandemic shift to home and hybrid working poses challenges for ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of workers, but the starting point should always be the careful assessment, discussion and management of risks like home workstations, electrical dangers and mental wellbeing.
There’s an app for that
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
Construction: a risky business
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
Made to move
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 September 2023
Network Rail fined £1.2m after man crushed inside machine
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 September 2023
Network Rail has been fined £1.2 million after its failure to implement a safe system of work caused a long-standing employee and grandfather to be killed.
Plymouth City Council fined £200,000 for HAVs failures
By Belinda Liversedge on 10 July 2023
Vape manufacturer fined £180k after worker severs three fingers
By Belinda Liversedge on 30 June 2023
Directors jailed for Birmingham wall collapse that killed five men
By Belinda Liversedge on 01 June 2023
Safe skies maintained, but at what cost?
By Mike Robinson on 06 September 2023
At the time of writing, the facts are still emerging about why thousands of UK flights had to be cancelled or delayed on August bank holiday Monday. But the incident raises vital questions for safety professionals everywhere.
The impact of insolvency on health and safety duties
By Laura White, Pinsent Masons on 01 September 2023
The role of evidence in workplace safety and health
By Dr Sarah Cumbers, Lloyds Register Foundation on 21 August 2023
Competence and culture change in the built environment: important developments
By Laura White, Pinsent Masons on 16 August 2023
How will the courts view reasonable practicability in the age of coronavirus?
By Chaired by Belinda Liversedge on 14 September 2020
In our latest edition of A Safer Conversation, two experts discuss the concept of reasonable practicability in the age of coronavirus.
Redefining workplace wellbeing – Part II
By Anna Ryland, British Safety Council on 27 May 2019
A safer conversation: respiratory disease - Part I
By Iris Cepero on 07 February 2017
A safer conversation: work-related road safety
By Iris Cepero on 20 August 2015
