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Ben Pepper

Work-related road risk – steering clear of danger

Each day across the UK, millions of employees take to the roads as part of their working lives. Whether delivering parcels, attending client meetings or riding bicycles between jobs, road use plays a vital role in keeping businesses going. While the general health and safety landscape has evolved significantly over recent decades, work-related road risk (‘WRRR’) remains an area that is too often overlooked by employers.

By Ben Pepper, CL Medilaw on 30 October 2025

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Driving accountability: why directors must own road risk

Successful management of occupational road risk is only possible if company directors take ownership of the process, setting expectations across the business, monitoring performance and setting a good example themselves.

By Simon Turner, Driving for Better Business on 30 October 2025

Daniel Easton

It is time to end the lottery of asbestos compensation

A legal anomaly that makes it more difficult for sufferers of asbestos-related lung cancer to obtain compensation than people who have developed mesothelioma means large numbers of people are dying before receiving full compensation that could prove vital in the final months of their lives.

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

    Daniel Easton

    It is time to end the lottery of asbestos compensation

    A legal anomaly that makes it more difficult for sufferers of asbestos-related lung cancer to obtain compensation than people who have developed mesothelioma means large numbers of people are dying before receiving full compensation that could prove vital in the final months of their lives.

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

    Ben Pepper

    Work-related road risk – steering clear of danger

    Each day across the UK, millions of employees take to the roads as part of their working lives. Whether delivering parcels, attending client meetings or riding bicycles between jobs, road use plays a vital role in keeping businesses going. While the general health and safety landscape has evolved significantly over recent decades, work-related road risk (‘WRRR’) remains an area that is too often overlooked by employers.

    By Ben Pepper, CL Medilaw on 30 October 2025

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    Sustainability and worker wellbeing: two-sides of the same coin

    Businesses increasingly understand the benefits of integrating their approach to worker wellbeing with their sustainability goals – and there are some practical, low-cost and simple ways of achieving this.

    By Dr Audrey Fleming and Dr Keith Whitehead, British Safety Council on 23 October 2025

    Charles Pickles

    Why a fourth wave of British asbestos deaths is imminent

    Although in past years asbestos-related mesothelioma deaths have been associated with exposures among construction and related trades working on the fabric of buildings, emerging evidence suggests that future cases of mesothelioma will be dominated by those exposed as children and teachers in schools in recent years, today and in the future.

    By Charles Pickles, Airtight on Asbestos on 02 September 2025

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    Asbestos: the public’s right to know

    Why we urgently need to improve training standards and awareness about asbestos exposure.

    By Richard Blunt, Mesothelioma UK on 02 September 2025

    Sarah Lyons

    Asbestos in schools: we urgently need a properly funded removal programme to reduce the risk to pupils and staff

    The National Education Union (NEU) was formed in 2017 from an amalgamation of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL). In total we have around half a million members, who work as teachers, support staff and leaders.

    By Sarah Lyons, National Education Union (NEU) on 03 September 2025

    Mike Robinson 3 Med

    An AI-enabled ‘zero-zero’ future

    In a relatively short time, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become synonymous with technological development, but development doesn’t inherently mean that the workers of the world will have a safer future.

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

    Susan Laurie

    Act in autumn to fix work-related alcohol issues year-round

    With employers likely turning their attention to Christmas and end-of-year parties for their teams, autumn is an ideal time to launch prevention, support and education programmes around alcohol at work, providing a real opportunity to protect health, productivity and performance.

    By Susan Laurie, Alcohol Change UK on 01 October 2025

    Mike Robinson 3 Med

    Echoes, not mirrors: Learning lessons from history

    To anyone outside the occupational safety and health (OSH) field, the job may appear deceptively simple. First, we identify hazards, then we create solutions, and finally, we watch risks disappear into history.

    By Mike Robinson FCA on 01 September 2025

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    Battery Breakdown e-bike fire safety campaign: where are we two years on?

    The Product Regulation and Metrology Bill currently before Parliament offers the opportunity to reduce the fire risks posed by sub-standard e-bikes, e-scooters and their lithium-ion batteries, but the Government needs to go further and faster to protect public safety.

    By Lesley Rudd, Electrical Safety First on 03 July 2025

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