newsIt has taken a straight talking Swede to shine a light on the UK’s peculiar fixation with health & safety to identify how the nation can move forward. Following the long awaited publication of Professor Löfstedt’s review into health & safety and the Government’s acceptance of its recommendations (full story page 5), in an interview on Radio 4, Löfstedt summarised the health & safety debate in the UK as “amplified and heatedâ€.
newsThe Government has announced plans to begin a major cut back of health & safety red tape as early as January. It will begin an immediate consultation on the abolition of a number of health & safety regulations and intends to have removed the first rules from the statute book within a few months. It will also establish from 1 January a new challenge panel which will allow businesses to get the decisions of health & safety inspectors overturned immediately if they are wrong.
newsThe Government has called for a review of the sickness absence system in Great Britain in order to help combat the £100 billion that working age ill health costs the economy every year.
articleAsbestos. The word does strike a level of fear in those that know the risks of exposure – and that is good; it is what drives workers to find out more about the risks and how to protect themselves, but worryingly there are still those who chance it, are ignorant or consider it a risk of bygone days linked to Britain’s industrial past of shipbuilding and the manufacturing of a wide range of products containing asbestos.
articleFrustrated by the Government’s slow response to calls for changes to laws concerning dangerous dogs,a group of organisations has launched a petition calling for urgent action. Antonia Molloy reports on how dangerous dogs are now a serious occupational hazard for some workers and discusses what can and is being done
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newsNewly diagnosed victims of mesothelioma are to receive help through a new support scheme, the Minister for Welfare Lord Freud and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) have announced.
newsMuch has been made of the fact that the Olympic 2012 build project has been the safest in history and of the hope that part of The Games’ legagcy could be to raise standards of health and safety in the construction industry. But the project’s success also provides a more widespread opportunity to improve standards of occupational health.
newsThe Health and Safety Executive has opened a 12- week consultation on proposals to simplify and clarify the reporting of injuries, diseases and dangerous occurrences.
newsCommunication techniques that helped to prevent worker deaths during the Olympic build could be harnessed to benefit other construction projects – a research study has found.
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