Maintaining buses, coaches and lorries
December 2, 2018The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) have recently published and updated their Guide to maintaining roadworthiness Commercial goods and passenger carrying vehicles. The guide gives a...
Lets talk about stress
December 2, 2018Latest statistics released by the HSE show that around 595,000 workers were reported to be suffering from work related stress, depression or anxiety in 2017/18, leading to 15.54 million lost w...
Health and safety progress in Northern Ireland
December 2, 2018The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) recently published their latest annual report. The report shows the number of fatal work related injuries in Northern Ireland fell ...
Food allergen information: what do you need to know?
December 2, 2018Recently there have been a number of stories in the news about food allergens and labelling. It is estimated that around 2 million people in the UK have a food allergy (1-2% of adults and 5-8%...
Fire safety: removing and replacing cladding on tall buildings
December 2, 2018Following the Grenfell Tower fire a number of tall buildings were identified with cladding that did not meet fire safety standards. Subsequently work has begun to remove and replace existing c...
Fewer prosecutions; bigger fines
December 2, 2018The latest figures released by the HSE show that a verdict was reached in 517 cases prosecuted by the HSE (or the Crown Office Procurator Fiscal Service in Scotland) in 2017/18 a fall from 612...
Discovering safety
December 2, 2018The HSE and the University of Manchester are starting work on an ambitious new programme called Discovering Safety. The programme aims to use using new insights from data and novel analytical ...
Counting the cost of injury and ill health
December 2, 2018Latest statistics released by the HSE show that the annual cost of work related injury and new cases of ill health in Britain was £15 billion of this approximately £9.7billion related to new...
Appeal launched in Opera House hearing loss case
December 2, 2018In May we reported how judgement had been awarded against the Royal Opera House following a claim by a musician that their hearing had been damaged by a particularly loud rehearsal in 2012. It...
Substance misuse assistance
November 22, 2018Public health England has released a new toolkit to help employers deal with workplace drug, alcohol and tobacco misuse issues. Is it worth a look? In June 2018, Public Health England released...
Do you need work place banter training?
November 22, 2018It’s been reported that Leicester Police is offering all its employees “workplace banter training”. This is an unusual step, but is it something you should be doing too? In September 201...
Employer liable for boss’s private party punch
November 22, 2018The court of appeal has ruled that an employer was vicariously liable for an employee’s injuries after he was punched by his boss at a private party. Does this mean that you’re now account...
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