THE NHS and wider healthcare system are still in the grips of dealing with the usual winter pressures along with the significant impact of COVID-19. The challenges of ensuring the safety and resilience of the NHS and wider workforce along with patient safety are greater than ever. [Read More]

AN IRVINE-based construction company and its director have been sentenced after multiple health and safety failings, giving rise to significant risk, were found on a house build site in Irvine. [Read More]

THE MANAGING director and the director of a printing company, have been fined for safety breaches after organising the removal of asbestos insulation board by untrained personnel. [Read More]

WITH A recent South Yorkshire inspection campaign drawing to its conclusion, the Health and Safety Executive has found that 65 per cent of businesses visited were in breach of the law. [Read More]

ALEX MINETT, head of product & markets at CHAS, the supply chain risk management expert, highlights ten issues that will affect construction supply chains in 2022. [Read More]

EPISODE 22 of the Health & Safety Matters Podcast is now live and features an interview with veteran health and safety journalist Louis Wustemann on hybrid working. [Read More]

AN EDINBURGH nursery has been fined £800,000 after an eleven-month-old boy in its care died after choking on a piece of food. [Read More]

WITH EMPLOYEES and customers returning to workplaces and stores following the pandemic, new research by JLA has revealed that many companies are ill-equipped to deal with the growing risk of fires at their sites – posing huge risk to employee and customer safety. [Read More]