Legal spotlight
KEVIN BRIDGES explores occupational road risk and how organisations can reduce incidents by addressing driver impairment caused by drugs or alcohol.
KEVIN BRIDGES explores occupational road risk and how organisations can reduce incidents by addressing driver impairment caused by drugs or alcohol.
RISING LEVELS of workplace ill health cannot be solved by isolated interventions alone — they demand system-wide change, writes Kevin Bridges.
SEAN ELSON provides an insight into the game-changing new British Standard on suicide intervention, prevention and support that has been published.
BRECKLAND COUNCIL has successfully prosecuted an Attleborough-based business for breaching Health and Safety Law, resulting in very serious injuries. The company has been ordered to pay a total of £29,000.
A BUILDER has been given a suspended prison sentence after a roof collapse destroyed a home and injured three workers in Windsor.
A SHOP sign making and fitting company and its director have been fined after an employee fell from an unguarded scaffolding tower and later died from his injuries.
FOR YEARS, health and safety in the HVAC sector has often been treated as a compliance requirement – a set of boxes to tick rather than a core business priority. But that approach no longer holds up, says Paul Cosentino.
Effect of apology in civil proceedings to be reformed. Kevin Bridges provides an insight.
This month we put the spotlight on Debbie Airey to find out about her journey in the health and safety industry and her new role at Safe Monitoring Group.
A ROAD haulage company in Nuneaton has been fined £90k after a metal heat exchanger fell from its lorry killing a cyclist.
HSM publishes a weekly eNewsletter, delivering a carefully chosen selection of the latest stories straight to your inbox.
Subscribe here