SAVING THE PLANET, CULTURE CHANGE AND THE ROLE OF SHE PROFESSIONALS
Simply put, to reduce our environmental impact, culture change is needed. Mark Ormond, Managing Director at Tribe Culture Change, discusses the parallels between safety and environmental culture change and how Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) Professionals should take workplace responsibility for this issue… Environmental transformation More and more, companies are understanding the …
EXTREME HEAT: WHAT ARE MY RIGHTS AT WORK?
Employers must make sure indoor workplaces remain at a reasonable temperature and manage the risk of working outdoors in hot environments, according to the Health and Safety Executive. The workplace regulator is sharing guidance ahead of the extreme warm weather predicted for Great Britain during the early part of this …
DOES THE HEALTH AND SAFETY PROFESSION NEED MORE CRITICAL THINKERS?
Are there too many platitudes in health and safety? Does the profession need more critical thinkers? These were just some of the questions posed at a live podcasting recording, held recently at Safety and Health Expo. The host of the Rebranding Safety Podcast, James MacPherson, was joined onstage by the …
HIGH PERFORMANCE GLAZING WILL KEEP PASSENGERS SAFE ON ELIZABETH LINE PLATFORMS
Almost four kilometres of glazed platform edge screening has been installed across central London’s Elizabeth line stations, keeping passengers safe with the final segment of the landmark rail project now open. St Helens headquartered glass manufacturer Pilkington UK supplied 5,000 glass panels to Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems UK, which manufactured and …
MANAGEMENT FAILINGS LED TO JEWSON WORKER’S LIFE-CHANGING INJURIES AND £400K FINE
Builders’ merchant Jewson has been fined £400,000 by Folkestone Magistrates’ Court following an incident in which a tonne of iron mesh sheets fell onto two of its workers, leaving one with life-changing injuries. IOSH magazine spoke to Thanet District Council’s public protection officer Simon Hogben about what happened. Image courtesy of Thanet …
THE HIGHWAY CODE IS CHANGING – EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
£2 MILLION CORPORATE KILLING FINE IMPOSED ON METAL RECYCLER FOR ‘INCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN’
Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee ‘in an incident waiting to happen’. Three company directors have also been fined after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. As part of a three-year …
£2 MILLION CORPORATE KILLING FINE IMPOSED ON METAL RECYCLER FOR ‘INCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN’
Scrap metal recycling firm Alutrade Ltd has been fined £2 million after admitting the corporate manslaughter of an employee ‘in an incident waiting to happen’. Three company directors have also been fined after pleading guilty to breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act. As part of a three-year …