HSE HAS published a report detailing that agriculture has the worst rate of fatal injuries of all the major industrial sectors, around 20 times higher than the average five-year annual rate across all industries. [Read More]

THE BRITISH Safety Council’s renowned Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit has been revised and updated. It now places greater emphasis on assessing how effectively an organisation manages the combined risks to workers’ health and wellbeing, as well as business resilience and recovery. [Read More]

THE GOVERNMENT'S relaxation of the rules, earlier this month, for how long lorry drivers can work as a temporary fix for a severe shortage of heavy goods vehicle (HGV) operators, is compromising safety standards and is not the solution to the haulage industry shortage of HGV drivers issue. [Read More]

DISPERSED WORKFORCES have been around for a long time, but now are starting to appear much more frequently. A dispersed workforce also presents challenges, and specifically the way in which companies fulfil their responsibility to protect their employees’ health and safety. [Read More]

THE PORTACOUNT Respirator Fit Tester is a quantitative respirator fit tester that is able to fit test any type or brand of respirators. [Read More]

THE OFFICE of Rail and Road (ORR) has published its 2020-21 annual assessments of rail safety in Great Britain and of Network Rail’s performance. [Read More]

WESTERN BUSINESS Media is excited to announce the launch of the Protection and Asset Management Series of Digital conferences, which includes Health & Safety Matters Live on the 13 October. [Read More]

A SELF-employed fitter has been jailed after carrying out gas work at a residential address in the New Forest whilst he was not competent to do so, leaving a gas boiler in an ‘at risk’ condition. [Read More]