In a perfect world we would be able to divide all employees into separate groups and devise health and safety protection that fits their roles perfectly. The production operators would […]

My Role I’m Mark – one of my key roles within the Cardinus health and safety consultancy team is working on strategic interventions to improve the health and safety performance […]

A new ISO standard, ISO 45001, on occupational health and safety management system requirements is in gestation, with the intention to publish the standard in October 2016. The standard will […]

ESOS is the Energy Saving Opportunities Scheme currently being developed in the UK by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to meet the EU Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). [...]

The court heard how the site manager and the commercial director were aware of the dangerous state of the excavation but took no steps to ensure it was safe. The […]

The muscles of the pelvis relax due to the release of the hormone relaxin. This softens the pelvis and stretches it in preparation for delivery of the baby. Several joints, […]

Despite this many organisations continue to fail to adequately document their system or develop systems that are so complicated no-one bothers following them. The result is that health and safety [...]

Claudia Calder Ten years ago, on the 20th April 2010, during the final phases of drilling onboard the Deepwater Horizon of an exploratory well at Macondo, a geyser of seawater […]

The increasing number of people using e-cigarettes has led to a number of organisations wondering what their policy should be towards their use at work and if they are harmful […]

Day two of Ergo Week and we’ve got another informing article, this time from lawyer David Egan from Irwin Mitchell LLP, discussing eight steps to avoiding prosecution under health and [...]