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25 January 2022
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How do we protect millions of workers in the UK from prolonged exposure to excessive noise and prevent long term, irreversible hearing damage, asks Tim Turney?
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22 September 2021
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FAMILIARITY WITH knives in everyday life can lead to a widespread blind spot when it comes to their provision and use in the workplace. Here, Ian Crellin outlines factors to consider when choosing safety knives to ensure they are both fit-for-purpose and safe to use
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26 July 2021
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Set to be the first and only major event to reunite the UK’s occupational safety and health community, The Health & Safety Event opens its doors on 7-9 September 2021 at the NEC in Birmingham
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28 January 2021
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has presented one of the greatest challenges to workplace health and safety of the modern era. While keeping employees physically safe from the virus is top priority, one of the ‘symptoms’ of the pandemic that employers also need to address is worker anxiety
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30 November 2020
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DESPITE MORE than 50 years of drink drive campaigns, road traffic accidents caused by driving after consuming alcohol are showing a rise in numbers.
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09 September 2020
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WHEN THE easing of lockdown measures began in mid-May, many businesses began a journey to assess the Coronavirus risks that applied to their workplaces. To make sure their working environments were COVID Secure, they went on to develop additional physical and procedural measures, says Dale Jones
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23 October 2020
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Fiona McGarry H M Inspector of Health and Safety and Health and Safety Executive lead for engineering and metalworking fluids looks at the issues surrounding the common practice of 'blowing down' metalworking fluids
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08 June 2020
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When a major part of your business involves materials handling it's vital to choose the right equipment for the job to minimise potential hazards and to ensure productive procedures, writes Martin McVicar, CEO and Co-founder of Combilift
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11 December 2019
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Building on his last article, which covered 'three main sources of unexpected events', here SafeStart CEO Larry Wilson looks at risk assessment from a new perspective
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05 December 2019
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Following from the previous article in Larry Wilson's Paradigm Shifts series, here the SafeStart CEO explores what lies behind hazardous events
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13 October 2019
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With the cost of poor mental health in the workplace ranging between £33-42bn each year, businesses need to get better at spotting and supporting mental wellbeing concerns. Indicators of poor mental health can be physical, psychological or behavioural and so a starting point is to understand some of the most common warning signs of poor mental health, explains Towergate Health & Protection.
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25 July 2019
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New research points to a step change in emergency treatment of water jet injuries. David Kennedy, director of the Water Jetting Association, explains more
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14 November 2018
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Distilleries have been affected by the update to the EN1755:2015 standard, which has changed how ATEX compliant lift trucks are built and managed. Pyroban explains more
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13 June 2018
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Larry Wilson, author of SafeStart, an advanced safety awareness training program, outlines how calculating an employee's complacency level may serve as a predictor of their risk of serious injury
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25 April 2018
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Connected devices, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence look set to transform real-time management of hazardous environments, as Glyn Jones, Group CEO, Trolex explains
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26 April 2018
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Larry Wilson, author of SafeStart, an advanced safety awareness training program, outlines how calculating an employee's complacency level may serve as a predictor of their risk of serious injury
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26 April 2018
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Suzannah Robin, an alcohol and drug safety expert at AlcoDigital, has helped various companies across the UK with their testing policies and procedures. Here she explains what to do if an employee tests positive for alcohol or drugs, and discusses how to identify and support individuals who are struggling with addiction
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25 April 2018
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To ensure that it can protect staff and remain legally compliant, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) in South Yorkshire asked compliance and risk management software business, Alcumus, to help overhaul its in-house COSHH (Control of Substances Hazardous to Health) procedures and introduce a CMS (COSHH Management System)
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16 November 2017
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The oil and gas industry is responsible for some of the most high-risk, hazardous work environments on the planet. Enforcing health and safety is crucial for the engineers on site, as well as protecting valuable assets. Paul Tanner, business development oil, gas & marine, Tyco Integrated Fire and Security, comments
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23 October 2017
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At the XXI World Congress on Safety and Health at Work, held in Singapore in September, the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) together with the International Labour Organization presented new estimates of the cost of poor occupational safety and health (OSH). The findings reveal that worldwide work-related injury and illness result in the loss of 3.9% of GDP, at an annual cost of about €2680 billion.
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