Suitable training plays an essential role in preventing fatalities and dangerous situations during work in confined, hazardous spaces like tanks, silos and sewers, but it’s essential that any course selected genuinely reflects the specific tasks, hazards and risks workers will be faced with.
By Adam Barker, Draeger Safety UK on 22 September 2026
Low-level access equipment like powered lifts can help make work at height safer by providing a secure, enclosed working platform, but they can also bring other benefits, such as avoiding the need for awkward stretching to reach work areas, which helps to prevent musculoskeletal injuries.
By Samuel Butterworth, JLG Power Towers on 22 September 2026
A recent safety awareness day has highlighted the importance of contractors regularly practising emergency rescue from mobile elevating work platforms, rather than relying on one-off training sessions and paper procedures that are not always easy to follow during a fast-moving incident.
By Ben Hughes, Horizon Platforms on 22 September 2026
A new Wellbeing Recognition Scheme designed to allow organisations across the HGV, coach and van sectors to demonstrate their commitment to improving the health, wellbeing and resilience of the industry’s workforce has been launched by the Road Haulage Association (RHA).
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 01 October 2026
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 04 October 2026
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 01 October 2026
By British Safety Council on 20 August 2026
By Thomas Tevlin on 13 August 2026
By British Safety Council on 30 July 2026
With workers over the age of 50 now comprising almost one third of the entire UK workforce, recruiting and training older workers is now core to the success of the economy. However, not all employers are offering what’s needed to retain and recruit older workers, and ageist attitudes, limited flexible working opportunities, and employment support that doesn’t fit with health, caring, or other responsibilities are leaving too many people locked out of the labour market.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 04 October 2026
By Dr Nicola Tik & Dr Shane Lowe, Vitrue Health on 07 October 2026
By Adam Barker, Draeger Safety UK on 22 September 2026
By Samuel Butterworth, JLG Power Towers on 22 September 2026
A clinical waste disposal company has been fined £300,000 after a court heard how surgeons had to spend six hours re-attaching a man’s arm after it was severed below the elbow in an unsafe machine.
By Thomas Tevlin on 02 September 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 08 July 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 18 June 2026
By Belinda Liversedge on 11 June 2026
The decentralisation of work away from fixed workplaces, the rise of Ai and demographic changes are creating new opportunities for people to carry out ‘hands-on’ work in the home, such as production of fashion, textiles, food and drink, and delivery of health services and therapies. However, our existing housing stock is not designed to accommodate such functions, so it’s essential that future town planning creates homes that support different kinds of enterprise, both to support business success and the wellbeing of these new home-based workers.
By Andy Lake, Flexibility.co.uk on 08 October 2026
By Mike Robinson, chief executive, British Safety Council on 11 September 2026
By Rob Music, The Migraine Trust on 07 September 2026
By Emma Tattersdill, Bexley Beaumont law firm on 17 August 2026
