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Training roadshow: Pitch perfection 04/08/2008

Training roadshow: Pitch perfection
As a health and safety expert and specialist trainer, do you know what makes a training buyer tick? Or how a delegate thinks? At this year’s training roadshow we’ll be asking you to ‘put yourself in someone else’s shoes’.

 


Strategy focuses on continuing the journey 04/08/2008

Strategy focuses on continuing the journey
Members can now find out more about IOSH’s future aims and objectives by getting hold of a copy of the Corporate Strategy 2008-2012.

 


Rob and Bob are off to the Palace! 04/08/2008

Rob and Bob are off to the Palace!
IOSH members have lined up to pay tribute to chief executive Rob Strange, after he was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.

 


Be positive professionals 27/06/2008

Be positive professionals
IOSH president-elect Nattasha Freeman says that health and safety is not about saying ‘no’, but about providing solutions and suggestions to turn a negative response into a positive.

 


HSE chair slams cotton-wool culture 24/06/2008

HSE chair slams cotton-wool culture
HSE chair Judith Hackitt CBE criticised the cotton-wool culture preventing children from experiencing managed risk at IOSH’s Honorary Vice-Presidents’ Luncheon at the House of Lords in May.

 


Keep up the good work 29/04/2008

Keep up the good work
The work of the Institution was given cross-party backing at the IOSH 08 Conference – although calls for a regulated profession may have to wait a while longer to be answered.

 


Influence the future of your professional body 19/02/2008

Influence the future of your professional body
Make a difference to the future of IOSH and contribute to making the world of work a safer place – apply for a position with IOSH’s Board of Trustees and standing committees. Vacancies are open to all categories of membership.

 


Free training for teens has global appeal 19/02/2008

Free training for teens has global appeal
The Workplace hazard awareness course (WHAC) is going from strength to strength, with more than 1400 teachers and trainers registered to access the free learning materials from IOSH’s Wiseup2work website.

 




 
       
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Streamlining proposals aim to reduce ‘health and safety burden’
The HSE web-based information provision is very, very good. How can the 1st finding require better?

Perhaps this finding is based on questionnaire responses from people who simply have not b

Streamlining proposals aim to reduce ‘health and safety burden’
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

Teenager “not at work” when he fell from employer’s roof during lunchtime
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

Grass is not always greener on other side of the world, OSH salary survey finds
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

Grass is not always greener on other side of the world, OSH salary survey finds
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

Teenager “not at work” when he fell from employer’s roof during lunchtime
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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