Coronavirus and the workplace: the latest
By Belinda Liversedge on 05 March 2020
Features
Coaching Construction
By Belinda Liversedge on 26 February 2020
A custom approach to hearing protection
By Jim Lythgow, Specsavers Corporate Eyecare on 21 January 2020
Coronavirus and the workplace: the latest
There is a bat somewhere in Wuhan in China that currently has a lot to answer for – this winged creature is believed to have kicked-started an outbreak of COVID-19, the latest form of coronavirus. Talk about a butterfly effect.
By Belinda Liversedge on 05 March 2020
Coaching Construction
Teaching stress management to an all-male audience of haulage and logistics workers can be a tough gig.
By Belinda Liversedge on 26 February 2020
The top five construction site risks and hazards
Construction sites can be dangerous places, especially for those without health and safety training.
By Kati de Matas, MRS Training & Rescue on 26 February 2020
Caring for head and mind
When Mates in Mind was founded in 2016, it was evident that the workers in the construction industry were experiencing a greater-than-usual risk of suicide, while stress and depression were cited as some of the causes.
By Iris Cepero on 24 February 2020
More to scaffolding than meets the eye
Scaffolding has for too long been considered by some to be a high risk, low skill trade. This could not be further from the truth.
By David Mosley, NASC director for training on 26 February 2020
Train your way to the top
A survey by the Building Safety Group, based on 10,000 site inspections conducted during the first six months of 2018, found that there has been a 13 per cent rise in the number of working from height safety breaches on construction sites.
By Paul Bruton, WernerCo on 26 February 2020
Unlock the benefits of great head protection
Our head and the brilliantly complex brain it protects are integral to everything we do – at home and at work. 100,000 miles of blood vessels and 100 billion neurons enable our brains to breathe, think, dream, retain memories, and make around 35,000 decisions each and every day.
By Mackenzie Peters, MSA Safety on 24 February 2020
The case for doing safety differently
Over the past two decades, safety improvements across a number of industries have largely flatlined – as measured in fatalities and serious injury rates, for instance – despite a vast expansion of safety investment, compliance and paperwork.
By EHS Congress Berlin on 10 February 2020
A custom approach to hearing protection
Our ears are intricate and extremely delicate instruments. Much like a person’s eyesight, once the hearing has been damaged, it cannot be reversed. It is vital, therefore, to protect hearing from the damaging, long-term effects of noise at work.
By Jim Lythgow, Specsavers Corporate Eyecare on 21 January 2020
Delivering safer winters: using GPS to transform ice clearance
When accidents happen, the blame game is never far behind. In an increasingly litigious society, when accidents occur on business premises, they are often followed by legal consequences resulting from breaches in health and safety law.
By Jason Petsch, GRITIT on 27 January 2020
