A new survey of the earning capacity of safety and health practitioners has found that the average salary of these professionals is just £25,000 – in New Zealand.
The GMB union has welcomed the latest crime figures pointing to a fall in the number of attacks against cash-in-transit couriers, but insists that more must be done to protect workers.
Reported on the BBC News site yesterday was the story of 68-year-old David Rees, whose family have wound the clock at Llandovery Market Hall, Carmarthenshire, for the last 150 years. Rees has now been asked to stop winding the clock for 'health and safety reasons'.
National media reports of mass orders of anti-stab vests being placed by local authorities and hospital trusts as a direct result of the rising incidence of knife-crime attacks have overstated the situation, the Local Government Association (LGA) has told SHP.
A worker inspecting commercial vehicle tyres was hit by an unsecured stack of steel pallets that fell off a forklift truck at the Wolverhampton premises of tyre giant, Goodyear Dunlop.
In a prosecution that demonstrates the courts’ determination to come down hard on those who flout asbestos regulations, two Essex firms have been handed huge fines after exposing their workers to materials containing the deadly fibre.
An access cradle left exposed to the elements on a Sheffield refurbishment site collapsed with four workers on board when a corroded bracket holding it to the suspension rope failed.
Construction giant Carillion JM, formerly known as Mowlem, was fined £70,000 and ordered to pay £24,000 towards HSE costs after an inexperienced employee died in a 17m fall inside an oil storage tank.
A Lancashire acoustic insulation manufacturer has been fined in connection with two separate incidents, in which workers were injured by unguarded machinery.
The Beijing Olympics start today, and are likely to focus extra attention on how London’s preparations for 2012 are going. For our special feature on training, Tina Weadick spent the day with the Olympic Delivery Authority’s health and safety advisor to find out about two initiatives to prepare adults and children from communities local to the planned construction sites for the Games.
Being faced with a new technology that aims to improve the way an organisation works can be a very daunting prospect. But with the right planning and support it can be made as trouble-free as possible, says Linda Easto.
Continuing professional development (CPD) is now required by all major professions and is not about penalising practitioners by making them come back again and again for training in order to generate revenue. Hazel Harvey explains the IOSH scheme and how easy the process can be.
The August issue of SHP is our Silver Jubilee issue, featuring a 12-page review of the highs and lows in safety and health over the last 25 years. Contributors from industry, safety bodies, IOSH, and the SHP readership look back on what has been achieved since 1983, and look forward to even greater improvements in the future. Enjoy the celebration!
Dr Anne Miller looks at the challenges and opportunities that the environment and sustainability responsibilities are generating, how different organisations are addressing them, and how safety and health professionals can ensure they are suitably informed to respond.
The UK offshore oil and gas industry is launching new minimum safety competence standards for employees working on installations on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS).
The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has released a dramatic video that shows the dangers of not wearing a full body harness on a boom type access platform.
The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) has announced new examinations to meet what it says is growing demand for qualifications in the fields of legionella control and local exhaust ventilation (LEV) design.
Whilst the ''official''s'' comments may not be accurately quoted in context, surely they illustrate one of the biggest difficulties for an H&S practitioner - the concept that risk should not be based
Sounds like an ''accident waiting to happen'' that should have been forseen with proactive risk management.
Let me put this scenarioi: an apprentice employee, in the lunch room on their lunch bre
Whilst agreeing with the sentiment that doing our job in order to protect lives is very satisfying, unfortunately living in tax expensive UK means that one has little choice but to look for a decent b
It''s not all about the money. Having worked abroad, in emerging economies, the reward is making a huge difference to the safety culture, instead of just picking round the edges of an overblown system
Steve, I don''t agree with that at all. You may think the public are duplicitous in this but generally they are sick to the back teeth of the influence of health & safety and most people would consid
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