newsEmployers must improve sickness absence management
Businesses are being hindered by a lack of effective sickness absence management, despite 53% of employers believing they’re well equipped to deal with long-term absence, a survey has found.
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productLet’s get behind FFI
For now, the fee-for-intervention (FFI) cost recovery scheme is the only viable funding option for HSE and we need to make it work, says Roger Bibbings of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA)
newsReview of Health and Safety Executive launched
3rd May 2013: Employment minister Mark Hoban has announced a review of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
newsReview of HSE launched
Employment minister Mark Hoban has announced a review of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
newsBBC to tackle workplace bullying culture
The BBC will overhaul its bullying and harassment policy after a review found evidence of widespread bullying and an “undercurrent of fear” about speaking out.
newsNew code curbs unnecessary council safety checks
Local authorities are being banned from unnecessary health and safety inspections under the HSE’s new enforcement code.
news43% rise in tip-off led inspections
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is sharply increasing the number of tip-off led inspections that it launches against businesses, according to figures from law firm Pinsent Masons.
newsViews sought on latest ACoP revisions
The HSE has launched three consultations on changes to the content of Approved Codes of Practice (ACOPs).
newsBlueprint sets out waste industry’s safety drive
A five-prong plan for driving down the number of people killed and seriously injured in the waste and recycling industry has been published.
newsVehicle salvage firm fined after half tonne car drops on mechanic
A vehicle salvage firm in Stalybridge has been fined over multiple safety failings after a car weighing more than half a tonne fell from a forklift truck, crushing a young mechanic underneath.
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