PRACTICAL GUIDANCE designed to ensure employers across all sectors provide staff with personal protective equipment (PPE) that fits, regardless of gender, ethnicity, body shape, age, or disability, has been issued in a long-awaited move designed to help struggling sectors retained skilled workers and ultimately enhance people’s safety at work. [Read More]

BSIF JOINS coalition calling for robust secondary legislation to support the Product Regulation and Metrology (PRAM) Act. [Read More]

A SECOND company has been fined after an investigation by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) into high-hazard infectious agents. [Read More]

THE BUILDING Engineering Services Association (BESA) and the Thermal Insulation Contractors Association (TICA) have joined forces to warn that operatives often working for multi-trade firms are putting lives at risk by carrying out specialist work beyond their competence. [Read More]

NEW RESEARCH from Peoplesafe suggests concerns are being ignored while mental health suffers and productivity wanes. [Read More]

THREE-QUARTERS of noisy workplaces lacked essential knowledge on maintaining hearing protection equipment, inspections have found. [Read More]

UK EMPLOYEES were off sick for nearly two full working weeks (9.4 days) on average in the last 12 months. This is a significant jump compared to pre-pandemic levels (5.8 days), and 7.8 days in 2023 when this survey was last carried out. [Read More]

IN SUPPORT of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September 2025, Pirtek UK & Ireland is urging leaders across engineering, construction and the industrial sectors to take meaningful action on mental health – particularly among male workers in the hard hat industries. [Read More]