A specialist construction company has been fined £60,000 after a worker fell to his death from a church steeple in Birmingham. David Clover was employed by Ecclesiastical Steeplejacks Ltd to carry out ...

Health and safety professionals must look after themselves to ensure they protect others, the new IOSH President has said on her focus for this year. Kelly Nicoll became the 58 th President of the ...

Dr Leandro Herrero, Chief Organisational Architect at The Chalfont Project, discusses system behaviours at work and what impact redirection could make on culture. “The problem of people not working ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is drafting new guidelines for tradesmen working with engineered stone after report shows increased risk to silicosis. HSE is asking for industry feedback from ...

More organisations have added their voice to a campaign calling for new laws to help prevent fires in the batteries used in some electric cars, e-scooters and e-bikes. Now more than 85 organisations ...

Calls for UK government to ban artificial stone worktops follow the first cases of silicosis linked to its manufacturing. Medical experts have called for the Government to follow Australia in banning ...

UK National Health and Wellbeing Forum (NHFW) calls for input to support AI in workplace research. The project aims to determine the impact AI has on psychological health and wellbeing in the ...

In the spirit of learning, I recently asked people in the ‘new-view’ Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) [i] world how they translate high-level Human Performance (HP) principles into actions to ...

A new law is to be introduced making assaulting a retail worker a standalone criminal offence – but unions say the government action is too little too late. The Prime Minister launched a retail crime ...

In the first of a three-part mini podcast series with both SHP and IFSEC Insider, Senior Technical Consultant at Firechief Global, Matt Humby talks about the risks associated with lithium-ion ...

Nearly two million workers in Great Britain reported suffering from work-related ill health in 2022/23 as construction sector reports rise in fatalities. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has ...

An Industry Competence Committee (ICC) has been created by the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) to provide insight and guidance to improve competency in the sector. The ICC will have a role in advising ...