Safety Management Magazine opinions

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

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

Supporting older workers with long-term health conditions is crucial for recruiting and retaining older talent

With businesses struggling to recruit, it’s more important than ever that employers expand their search for the best talent. Post-pandemic, we know that businesses are losing the experience and skills of older workers, with more than 330,000 people 50–64 having retired early since the beginning of 2020.

By Luke Price, Centre for Ageing Better on 13 November 2022

Managing work-related road risk with vehicle safety technology

Work-related road safety has been high on the agenda in recent years and, as greater numbers of people have returned to the roads following the end of Covid-19 lockdown restrictions in 2021, there has been a corresponding increase in road casualties.

By Matthew Sulley, Pinsent Masons LLP on 10 November 2022

How we can help small businesses to ‘Keep Thriving’ this winter

Last month, I asked ‘how can we avoid this becoming a winter of discontent?’ The Government has since set out its plans to cap energy prices for consumers and businesses, and how it will seek to grow the economy and support people, largely through a series of tax cuts.

By Mike Robinson FCA on 01 October 2022

Menopause at work: women need better support from employers

Years of pseudonyms and oblique references have long disguised the reality that menopause is a fact of life – as predictable and mundane as the menstrual periods that 50 per cent of the population experience, every month, for decades of their lives.

By Caroline Nokes MP on 01 October 2022

Musculoskeletal disorders at work – the current state of play in Britain

The latest statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) show that in Great Britain in 2020/21, approximately 470,000 workers reported suffering from new or longstanding work-related musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs).

By Charlotte O'Kane and Hannah Frost, Pinsent Masons on 01 October 2022

Time well spent, and a day to remember

Sometimes, when you spend time at a conference, you come away thinking “well, that was eight hours I simply won’t get back!”

By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 20 September 2022

Unpaid carers need a legal right to unpaid leave to support their wellbeing

Unpaid carers are the backbone of our society. It is a cliché but it is true. There are an estimated 2.3 million people providing care to their family, friends and neighbours around the country. According to the 2011 census 3,313 of them are living in my constituency in North East Fife – although we know that figure is likely to be much higher now.

By Wendy Chamberlain, Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife, Liberal Democrat Chief Whip and Spokesperson for Work and Pensions on 13 September 2022