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  1. Management behaviours in preventing stress: new guidance

    ...HSE’s report is available to download here >>

    News | 4 Jun 2008

  2. The importance of worker involvement in health and safety

    The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has stressed the vital link between health and safety and active involvement of the workforce, and has set out how it intends to further its, and the HSE’s, work on worker involvement in health and safety. Bill Callaghan, Chair of the HSC emphasised the importance of the link by reminding people of the work done by the Robens Committee – work that led to the enactment of the Health and Safety at Work Act (HSWA) in 1974. Robens, who recognised tha...

    News | 22 Mar 2007

  3. Fleets still in the dark over new safety law

    The majority of fleets are unaware of new safety legislation that could result in individuals who fail to manage risk for at-work drivers being jailed for up to two years. According to a Fleet News poll, 74% of respondents said that they had no knowledge of amendments to the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act, called the Health and Safety...

    News | 3 Apr 2009

  4. Government urged to resist pressure for new safety laws

    EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, has urged Government and the HSE to resist pressures for new legal duties on company directors, following a survey which showed a substantial increase in the number of directors taking a leading role in their companies' health and safety management. Under pressure to introduce new duties on company directors, the HSE has given employers until 2010 to demons...

    News | 17 Feb 2009

  5. Delayed – when will the new fire legislation come into force?

    A spokesperson from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) has admitted to Workplace Law that the guides the ODPM were meant to publish in advance of the new Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 (RRO) will be delayed. The spokesperson couldn’t tell Workplace Law when the guides would be published, saying that their ‘hands were tied’ as an official statement will be made on Thursday detailing the future of the RRO. However Peter Reading, wh...

    News | 11 Jan 2006

  6. Lofstedt report: Reactions from Workplace Law and more

    ...ding the third sector, are going to have to step up to the mark and show the way forward on health and safety.” EvershedsDavid Young, partner and head of the health and safety group at law firm Eversheds, commented: "The use of policy reviews to further political and economic agendas is nothing new, even if they are usually the proverbial elephant in the room. In the case of the Lofstedt Review, coupled with anything said on the topic of health and safety by George Osborne in his autumn statement, the Government will learn how King Canute felt. From the evangelists to the apologists, achievin...

    News | 29 Nov 2011

  7. “A staggering

    Geoffrey Podger, the HSE’s Chief Executive, has called on UK employers to do more to reduce the 30 million working days lost every year due to poor health and safety. In a speech delivered to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Occupational Medicine in York, he remarked, “The UK has one of the best health and s...

    News | 6 Jul 2007

  8. Official CDM guidance delayed

    ...guidance relating to the new Construction (Design and Management) (CDM) Regulations, which was meant to be made available by mid January, will now not be available until mid February. As Workplace Law previously reported, the HSC approved the CDM Regulations on 20 October 2006. According to the HSE’s CDM implementation timetable, the accompanying ACoP should have been published this month - it will now not be published until February. This delay has been caused because even though the Regulations have been approved by the HSC they have still not been passed on to the relevant minister to b...

    News | 11 Jan 2007

  9. More should be done to cut workplace accidents

    A health and safety expert has said much more can be done to reduce the number of accidents in the workplace following the release of the latest HSE figures. The statistics show that over the 2008/09 year to date (Q1–Q3) major injuries are down only 1.1% compared with the same period last year. Roger Maddocks, Partner and work accident expert at law firm, Irwin Mitchell, said:  “Although it is encouraging that the figures are decreasing it is concerning that the rate of reduction is slowing do...

    News | 17 Apr 2009

  10. Death at work has been decriminalised, warns report

    At least twice as many people die from fatal injuries at work than are victims of homicide, a new report from the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies has suggested. The report, A Crisis of Enforcement, found that at least 1,300 people died as a result of fatal occupational injuries in 2005-2006 in England and Wales; in the same year, 765 were murdered. Non-fatal workplace injuries requiring ho...

    News | 18 Jun 2008

  11. Do your employees use mobile phones while driving?

    Since 27 February motorists have faced tough new penalties for breaking the law by using a hand-held mobile phone while driving. However, it would seem that the tougher penalties have done little to deter people – something that should be of particular concern to those businesses who have employees that drive for work. Four in 10 mobile pho...

    News | 29 May 2007

  12. Scottish councils told to proactively address employee health

    ...port officer deals with all absences due to psychological illness. Pamela Forsyth, a Personnel Adviser in Corporate Personnel Services at South Lanarkshire Council said: "At a time when many organisations have taken a negative, punitive approach to managing employee absence, we have adopted a new, all encompassing and innovative approach, based around the themes of promotion of health and wellbeing; preventative support and assistance; work life balance; and support and assistance during absence. As a result we have one of the lowest absence rates of all Scottish local authorities. Our appr...

    News | 2 Feb 2007

  13. Excessive risk aversion debate: fact or fiction?

    ...ggested that the UK has become a risk-averse nation that over-protects and over-regulates. It concluded that as a nation we no longer manage risk; we try to eradicate it. The BRC’s report says that politicians are prone to knee-jerk legislation and controls: so far this year, there have been 33 new acts of Parliament and more than 1,000 extra statutory regulations. The issue of excessive risk aversion has gained much publicity of late, with some peole maintaining that there is no evidence to say people are becoming more risk averse, and with others claiming that there is. Recently in an e...

    News | 25 Oct 2006