productSafety hazard warning
New research, commissioned by safety charity Electrical Safety First, suggests that landlords and letting agents may be putting their student tenants’ lives at risk, by failing to fix serious safety hazards.
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productSafer welding
Recognising the risk to health posed by the radio toxic red tipped thoriated tungsten electrodes that are in wide use in the welding industry, Huntingdon Fusion Techniques HFT have developed MultiStrike Tungsten Electrodes that are free from the potentially harmful thoria.
productScalable safety assessments
Rockwell Automation has updated its safety assessment services.
productAEDs on display
Cardiac Science develops, manufactures and markets automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and provides a portfolio of training, maintenance and support services and programmes for its AEDs.
newsA packed day of debate at annual conference, Health and Safety – What’s Next? in London
Top speakers across compliance, enforcement, health and policy engaged an audience of over 120 delegates at the British Safety Council’s Annual Conference, on Wednesday 23 September.
productComputer cleaning month
DURABLE UK, the developer and producer of office supplies, has launched its tenth annual Computer Cleaning Month.
newsIndustry support for EU membership not resounding
Environmental and health and safety professionals are narrowly in favour of the UK remaining a member of the European Union, according to a new industry poll.
articleProtecting the people behind the headlines
Dr Karen McDonnell, occupational health and safety policy adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), discusses the devastation behind the headlines.
articleUnacceptable statistics in the manufacturing sector
On average two workers are injured every day in the manufacturing sector. That means in the last year alone 784 people were injured, with the majority (465) involving moving machinery. Bryan Richards, managing partner and chartered safety and health practitioner at Arinite says that for an industry that directly employs 8.5% of the workforce and 15% of the UK’s gross domestic product this is unacceptable, and expensive: 4.7 million working days were lost in 2013/2014 due to injury. So what can b
articleA day in the life of Diana Salmon
Each issue HSM speaks to a member of the BOHS about the challenges and rewards of working as an occupational hygienist. This issue we talk to health, safety and wellbeing manager – and part time consultant – Diana Salmon.
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