Health and safety professionals must look after themselves to ensure they protect others, the new IOSH President has said on her focus for this year. Kelly Nicoll became the 58 th President of the ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is drafting new guidelines for tradesmen working with engineered stone after report shows increased risk to silicosis. HSE is asking for industry feedback from ...

Over the past 30 years that I have worked in the occupational safety and health profession, I have seen the role of the safety engineer transform into that of an advisor as processes and controls ...

More organisations have added their voice to a campaign calling for new laws to help prevent fires in the batteries used in some electric cars, e-scooters and e-bikes. Now more than 85 organisations ...

Having began his career as an Emergency Medical Technician Jason Killens is now Chief Executive of the Welsh Ambulance Service NHS Trust. In this special episode of the Safety Conversation Podcast, he ...

London Fire Brigade (LFB) said 225 firefighters tackled the blaze in Dagenham, East London in the early hours on Monday (26 August) morning. Residents of the high rise block, the Spectrum Building, ...

Calls for UK government to ban artificial stone worktops follow the first cases of silicosis linked to its manufacturing. Medical experts have called for the Government to follow Australia in banning ...

New publication reflecting on fifty years of the legislation applauds the Act’s influence but asks questions around wellbeing and technology. While most applauded its affect in curtailing deaths and ...

IOSH and CIOB have urged Labour to consider quality and competency in its ambitious construction targets. Associations including IOSH, CIOB and RoSPA have expressed caution in response to the ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual statistics on work-related fatalities, with 138 workers killed in work-related accidents, up from 136 last year. The figure has ...

Major players including Network Rail, Vodafone and Southern Water pledge support to initiative. SHP’s campaign to make PPE inclusive for all workers has been given a major boost after a swathe of big ...

In the spirit of learning, I recently asked people in the ‘new-view’ Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) [i] world how they translate high-level Human Performance (HP) principles into actions to ...