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
Why we urgently need to improve training standards and awareness about asbestos exposure.
By Richard Blunt, Mesothelioma UK on 02 September 2025
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
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) began its work as statutory consultee for planning applications that include a high-rise residential building in England, in August 2021.
By Mark Wilson, HSE on 04 July 2022
By Lucy Brown, affected leaseholder, UK Cladding Action Group on 01 July 2022
The shift to a green economy will create green jobs within new and emerging sectors, while those working in existing sectors will have to gain the requisite green skills to take advantage of the business value-creation opportunities that come from embedding sustainability across the whole organisation.
By Martin Baxter, deputy CEO, IEMA (Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment) on 01 June 2022
A universal presumption that work will be safe, or at least as safe as it can be, is one of the key achievements of the labour movement over the past century. Gone are the days of people crawling into moving machinery because it’s too costly to shut it down. But the new world of work brings its own challenges, and it is up to us as trade unions to ensure that the rights of workers keep up with those changes.
By Andrew Pakes, Prospect on 01 June 2022
As we strive to move from reliance on fossil fuels to renewable energy, one area of crucial importance will be wind power – both onshore and offshore. However, there are some important health and safety factors and risks that must be taken into account and carefully managed by those constructing, operating and maintaining offshore wind turbines and farms.
By Bruce Craig, Pinsent Masons on 01 June 2022
The need to act on climate change is all the more urgent as the gas and economic crises take hold. If we are to deliver the UK Government’s 2050 Net Zero target, we also need to radically change our behaviour, systems processes and lifestyles.
By Alex Sobel MP on 01 June 2022
When does something designed to protect you from danger become something that restricts your freedom and a cost you would rather avoid?
By Mike Robinson FCA on 03 May 2022
Regulations that ‘burden’, regulatory ‘barnacles’ and ‘red tape’. Just some of the words and phrases contained in a letter from Jacob Rees-Mogg that appeared in The Sun newspaper in 2022, calling on its readers to suggest UK regulations to abolish. Together they, with countless other examples, negatively frame how many politicians and commentators, amplified by a supportive media, see regulations – and enforcement – and how they would like the public to see them.
By Matthew Holder, Unchecked UK on 01 May 2022
The Building Safety Bill in its current form is an altogether better solution for leaseholders than we could have hoped for during the passage of the Fire Safety Act 2021.
By Royston Smith MP on 20 April 2022
Do we value regulations enough, or are we better off without them? Most of the time, many of us never pause to think about the rules that govern us, so embedded are they in our daily life.
By Mike Robinson on 12 April 2022
