We need to fill evidence gaps in key and emerging areas of safety, a leading voice in engineering risk management and major hazard industries has said.
By Belinda Liversedge on 09 December 2025
On the day of the Buncefield fire’s 20th anniversary, 11 December 2025, HSE has reflected on the ‘profound changes’ the catastrophic fire has had on the major hazards sector’s management of risk.
By Belinda Liversedge on 11 December 2025
Female workers report significantly higher rates of stress compared to their male colleagues, HSE statistics show.
By Belinda Liversedge on 02 December 2025
Reasonable adjustment ‘passports’ can help companies get the best out of neurodivergent employees and enable them to thrive in the workplace, according to Worcestershire County Council’s occupational health and safety manager, Gary Monaghan, who talks from personal experience.
By Kerry Reals on 28 January 2024
Psychological stress in the workplace is rising and there is “no silver bullet” to resolve it, Marshel Rozario, an associate tutor at health and safety training provider RRC International, told delegates attending the SHW Live North conference in Manchester.
By Kerry Reals on 28 January 2024
Implementing a companywide wellbeing strategy can have a significant positive impact on boosting employee engagement and reducing issues related to stress and burnout, but there is a gap in awareness of how to make a strong business case for wellbeing within organisations.
By Kerry Reals on 28 January 2024
More than half of manufacturing businesses that use metalworking fluids are failing to adequately protect employees, inspections carried out by Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have shown.
By Kerry Reals on 28 January 2024
An average of 33 million days in the UK are lost each year due to minor illnesses, like coughs and colds, with 18 million days lost to mental health conditions.
By Belinda Liversedge on 24 January 2024
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 08 December 2023
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 November 2023
Gone are the days when mental health was a social taboo. Around World Mental Health Day on 10 October, it’s heartening to know that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” attitude to mental health in the workplace is now becoming “do ask, do tell, let’s talk”.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 13 October 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.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 11 September 2023
Following recommendations from Rahul Gadhi, the Congress-ruled states of Rajasthan and Karnataka have begun introducing laws that will make platform-based gig workers eligible for certain social security benefits.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 07 August 2023
