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Hidden impact: how managers shape our mental health more than we realise
Hidden impact: how managers shape our mental health more than we realise...
Published 24 Sept 2024
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HSE requests use cases on AI and health and safety
The HSE is launching a new research project to map AI's impact on health and safety across its regulated industries. This will help it...
Published 16 Sept 2024
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Changing the narrative on suicide
The World Health Organization estimates that more than 720,000 people die every year from suicide. That’s around 2,000 a day or 80 every hour. And...
Published 10 Sept 2024
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Dagenham high-rise fire exposes “national scandal” of flammable cladding
The Fire Brigades Union has said that a high-rise fire in Dagenham exposes the “national scandal” of flammable cladding and deregulation in the building industry....
Published 28 Aug 2024
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Worker loses fingers: the significance of machine safety
A case involving a multi-national food company has highlighted the significance of machine safety in the manufacturing industry....
Published 28 Aug 2024
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Occupational health and safety professionals vote in favour of four-day week
Occupational safety and health (OSH) professionals have delivered an emphatic response to the recent debate on the merits and demerits of introducing a four-day working...
Published 28 Aug 2024
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The dangers of scaffolding: builder avoids immediate prison sentence
A builder has been given a suspended prison sentence after he put the lives of workers at risk on a construction site in London....
Published 20 Aug 2024
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Employers should do more to support workforce wellbeing
Fifty-five per cent of professionals think employers should be doing more to help with employee wellbeing – whilst over two-fifths of senior leaders feel their...
Published 19 Aug 2024
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Health and safety investment can be “game-changer”, says IOSH
The global chartered body for health and safety professionals has called on UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and his government to invest further in...
Published 19 Aug 2024
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68% of workers do not feel safe in their workplace
Nearly a quarter of remote workers would quit before returning to a risky worksite....
Published 19 Jan 2021
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Anxiety is on the increase, but mental health support is lacking
Sixty-eight percent of employees have felt anxious and apprehensive about returning to work, while 35% report their mental health is worse now compared to before...
Published 23 Sept 2020
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Workplace first aid kits: what should be in them?
The contents of your workplace first aid kit should be guided by your first aid needs assessment. This should take into account the level of...
Published 16 Jan 2019
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Walking from bed to desk is commuting, German court rules
A German worker who had an accident while walking from his bed to his computer when he was working from home was officially commuting, a...
Published 2 Mar 2022
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Asbestos in schools: an inspector calls
The HSE will be carrying out a programme of inspections of primary and secondary schools in England, Scotland and Wales from October 2023 onwards to...
Published 25 Sept 2023
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‘Ethical veganism’ now a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010
A judge in a UK Employment Tribunal has ruled that being vegan, for ethical reasons, amounts to a ‘philosophical belief’ and is therefore protected by...
Published 8 Jan 2020
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