News and Prosecutions
Offshore injury rates hit the deck
6 August 2009
No-one died while working offshore in 2008-2009 and the combined fatal and major injury rate has dropped to its lowest since the HSE began regulating the industry, according to the…
EU-OSHA report details new five-year strategy
22 July 2009
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has published its Annual Report
Stockline inquiry criticises regulatory regime
17 July 2009
Recommendations to replace all buried metallic liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) pipes in high risk areas, introduce a new LPG safety regime, and improve communication between the HSE, UK LPG suppliers…
Record low in work deaths may be due to recession
25 June 2009
Work deaths in Britain have fallen to a record low, with figures from the HSE revealing that 180 workers were killed at work in 2008/09 - a notable drop from…
Fake high-vis gear puts lives at risk
9 February 2009
Fake and substandard high-visibility clothing is putting workers' lives at risk. Documents seen by HSW magazine's sister publication Health and Safety Bulletin (HSB) show that major retailers throughout England have…
Articles
A good man in a storm
8 July 2009
Louis Wustemann learns about managing crises from the man who led the local responses to the Buncefield explosion, and the Hatfield and Potters Bar rail crashes.
Only human
1 May 2009
Early in the morning of 22 May 2006, a senior lifeguard at a Total Fitness gym in the Wirral mistakenly added chlorine granules to an acid tank rather than the…
Pitch perfect: engaging managers
11 February 2009
Managers are rarely judged by their safety performance; their operational efficiency and effectiveness is usually far more important to an organisation. Yet it's the safety practitioner's role to point out…
Whose bright idea was that?
9 February 2009
Since it was developed in the 1930s,"high-visibility" gear has become an icon of health and safety. Becky Allen reflects on its past, present and future.
What lies beneath
10 November 2008
Shelley Atkinson-Frost explains how to locate buried services safely.
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