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First workplace standard to address suicide awareness is published

BSI has today published BS 30480, the UK’s first-ever national standard to help workplaces prevent and respond to suicide.

By Belinda Liversedge on 07 November 2025

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Targeting dust in construction

Rohan Jindal was cycling to college in Dehli where he was studying engineering, when he had to stop. Not because of the hot sun beating down, but because he couldn’t breathe. And although asthmatic, that wasn’t the trigger. Looking all around he saw construction sites emitting large clouds of dust. This was his ‘a ha’ moment. “What,” he asked himself “do they do in construction to supress the dust?”

By Belinda Liversedge on 30 October 2025

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‘Casual attitude’ to pedestrian safety lands Biffa with £2.5m fine

Biffa Waste Services has been fined £2.48 million after a reversing skip wagon ran over a worker at a waste transfer station in Bradford.

By Belinda Liversedge on 04 November 2025

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Safety in motion: protecting the people who move the world

Transport keeps our world connected. Every product on every shelf, each commuter journey, flight or freight delivery depends on the people who move the world: the drivers, pilots, mechanics, dispatchers, engineers, and logistics specialists.

By Mike Robinson FCA on 13 November 2025

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Work-related road risk – steering clear of danger

By Ben Pepper, CL Medilaw on 30 October 2025

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It is time to end the lottery of asbestos compensation

By Daniel Easton, Association of Personal Injury Lawyers on 30 October 2025

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An AI-enabled ‘zero-zero’ future

By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 07 October 2025