THE UK Government must widen access to and strengthen occupational health systems if it is to meet its target of reducing sickness absence and getting people back to work, a new report from IOSH says. [Read More]

BAD VIBRATIONS, a new campaign tackling the widespread confusion surrounding Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS), has been launched by the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF). [Read More]

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]

THE HEALTH and Safety Executive (HSE) urges employers to go beyond raising awareness and take practical steps to prevent work-related stress. [Read More]

DRIVING FOR Better Business (DfBB), the award-winning National Highways programme, is launching a new free video podcast series – ‘The Hidden Risk’ – on 10 October 2025, alongside a free online course designed to help managers in supporting mental health and wellbeing of operational drivers. [Read More]

GREAT WESTERN Railway (GWR) has been fined £1 million and ordered to pay more than £78,000 in costs after pleading guilty to breaches of health and safety law, following an investigation and prosecution by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR). [Read More]

CONSTRUCTION WORKERS’ health cash plan claims rose by more than 6% in the past year, according to new figures from Westfield Health. [Read More]

A MANUFACTURING company has been fined £240k after a grandfather was killed by a reversing HGV in Birmingham. [Read More]