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
From March 2025, many businesses in England will have to begin separating their recyclable and food waste from general waste prior to collection, but the changes will bring wider business benefits, such as reduced waste disposal costs and improved sustainability credentials.
By Adriana Olaya Rodriguez, Newell Brands on 12 November 2024
When most people think of injuries in the materials handling industry, they picture serious incidents – severe trauma or even fatalities. However, a silent issue affects far more workers every day: musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).
By Kirsty Cunningham, Mitsubishi Forklift Trucks on 11 November 2024
Transport Corporation of India (TCI Group) was awarded the James Tye award for its brave and imaginative initiative to raise awareness of road safety in India. Safety Management finds out more about the project.
By Belinda Liversedge on 07 December 2020
The huge growth in lone and home working driven by the pandemic means greater numbers of staff could be facing a higher risk of aggression from the public and work-related stress due to isolation from colleagues.
By Nicole Vazquez, Director, Worthwhile Training on 01 December 2020
Thorough examinations of forklift trucks are vital to ensure they remain safe to use.
By Geoff Martin, chairman, CFTS on 19 November 2020
Staff who drive as part of their work must be consulted on any rules designed to ensure safe driving, otherwise they will not be committed to following them.
By Simon Turner, Driving for Better Business on 17 November 2020
Tower scaffolds are widely used for work at height, but they must be carefully selected and only erected and used by trained and competent people.
By Don Aers on 19 October 2020
Matthew Holder speaks to Neal Stone about the need for unity to resist a more dangerous world being thrust upon us. Neal is head of policy and governance at McOnie and served for many years as director of policy at the British Safety Council.
By Belinda Liversedge on 13 October 2020
A free service exists so those carrying out excavation work can check for potentially dangerous underground cables and pipes.
By Richard Broome on 12 October 2020
Safety practitioners must have good communication skills to get workers to ‘buy-in’ to health and safety, say recruitment specialists Shirley Parsons and Liam Tiddy.
By Shirley Parsons and Liam Tiddy on 10 November 2020
A UK-wide network of campaigners with a long history of calling out injustice at work, Hazards has stood almost alone during the pandemic in how they take on anyone they see as failing to uphold the safety of working people.
By on 08 October 2020
How the UK’s garment workers have been let down by the very system which claimed to protect them – and what needs to change.
By Meg Lewis on 07 September 2020
