Four-day working weeks have hit the headlines again, with a second UK-wide pilot set to begin in November. While there is debate around whether shortening the work week is the answer, attitudes towards more flexible ways of working are changing and employers who fail to recognise this risk being left behind.
By Kerry Reals on 31 October 2024
How many column inches were taken up in the build-up to the Budget wondering who exactly the Government meant by ‘working people’? And now that we know what was in it, does it really matter?
By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 01 November 2024
It is time to end the “brinkmanship” and “get down to the real business” of reaching a global agreement on financial support to help developing countries cut emissions and cope with the effects of climate change, the United Nations’ climate chief told negotiators in Azerbaijan as the COP29 summit entered its final week.
By Kerry Reals on 19 November 2024
The number of people in Great Britain who reported suffering work-related ill health fell slightly in 2023/24, compared with the previous year, but work-related fatalities and non-fatal injuries were both up, according to the latest annual statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE).
By Kerry Reals on 20 November 2024
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By Kerry Reals on 05 November 2024
I will tell anyone who cares to listen that winter 2020/2021 was a historic moment in British social and economic history. British business became, for the first time ever, my public health hero.
By Kevin Bampton, British Occupational Hygiene Society on 01 December 2021
By Marcus Herbert, British Safety Council on 01 December 2021
By Adriana Olaya Rodriguez, Newell Brands on 12 November 2024
By Kirsty Cunningham, Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks on 11 November 2024
The owner of well-known food brands including Ginsters pasties and Soreen malt loaf has been fined more than £1 million over the death of an employee who was struck by a lorry that was delivering supplies to one of its bakeries.
By Kerry Reals on 13 November 2024
By Kerry Reals on 18 September 2024
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By Kerry Reals on 27 August 2024
According to Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics, 138 workers were killed in work-related accidents in 2023/24, with 25 of those fatalities involving being struck by a moving vehicle in the workplace – a 25 per cent increase on the same figure for 2022/23.
By Matthew Sulley, Pinsent Masons on 12 November 2024
By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 01 November 2024
By Ashton Cull, Road Haulage Association (RHA) on 01 November 2024
By Matthew Holder, Unchecked UK on 01 May 2022
