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Our blogs offer informal and opinionated insight into the most pertinent health and safety and workplace issues. Authored by our team of experts, our blogs take an alternate look at issues in the news.
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Work gloves: what you need to know
Whatever your trade or profession, if you carry out tasks that involve working with your hands, it is more than likely that you will wear...
Published 19 Feb 2014
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Employers have lost the ability to handle redundancy humanely
The increased need for businesses to downsize their workforce in the last five years has meant that employers have found it easier to take a...
Published 17 Feb 2014
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PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
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The importance of nurturing your workforce
Nature or nurture: which shapes our destinies? Is it our genetics or our environment? And what about our careers: is professional advancement the result of...
Published 17 Jan 2014
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Whose Day is it today?
This afternoon, commuting home on a busy train from London, sat in the aisle due to a lack of seats, I reflected ruefully that today...
Published 8 Mar 2013
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PEOPLE AND CULTURE
AI in safety, health and wellbeing – the ethics, challenges and pitfalls
Published 5 Jan 2024
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NEBOSH certificate programme: the ‘new’ normal
Since the launch in 1989 of the National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety, NEBOSH has been the dominant force in the health and...
Published 2 Jan 2024
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AI in safety, health and wellbeing – the ethics, challenges and pitfalls
The impact of AI is often described in terms of extremes. On the one hand, it’s seen as a technological breakthrough to allow us to...
Published 5 Jan 2024
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Fire safety guidance – what you need to know
Those of us who work in safety – and particularly in fire safety – have learned to see fire risk on a continuum. There really...
Published 19 Jun 2017
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Health and safety trends in the manufacturing industry
Manufacturing can be a dangerous business, it is one of the industries with the most workplace injuries and fatalities. It accounts for only 10% of...
Published 5 Nov 2014
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Psychological safety – trusting people to trust you as a business
Psychological safety – the belief that one can speak up without risk of punishment or humiliation – is long established as a crucial component to...
Published 17 May 2022
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Is your country the safest place to work?
Last week, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published new figures showing that Britain continues to be one of the safest places to work in...
Published 4 Nov 2014
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