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Learning velocity: the new measure of safety maturity

Safety training has often been delivered on a time-based cycle, such as annual courses and refreshers, but with new hazards and risks emerging at an ever-growing rate, it is essential that employers continuously monitor for changing risks, provide updated training, and check the new knowledge taught is actually making work safer.

By Dr Julie Riggs, British Safety Council on 07 September 2026

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Safety talk: what is your safety system really saying?

We tell workers we want them to speak up when things go wrong, but the words, numbers and models we use in safety management can quietly tell them to stay silent. Choosing our language and symbols with care can rebuild the trust that makes honest conversations about safety possible.

By Grant Tickle, British Safety Council on 07 September 2026

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Migraine in work: a test of the Government’s plans to Keep Britain Working

Migraine can have a profound, and often avoidable, impact on people’s working lives and careers. The Government’s growing focus on workplace health offers an important opportunity to change this, but only if this common, often disabling and frequently invisible neurological condition is properly understood and addressed by Government, the NHS and employers.

By Rob Music, The Migraine Trust on 07 September 2026

Safety Management Magazine News

British Safety Council calls on UK Government to ban silica-containing materials

British Safety Council has called on the UK Government to ban the import and export of high silica-containing products within the next five years to protect workers from the risks associated with high-concentration silica-containing materials.

By British Safety Council on 20 August 2026

Mates in Mind launches free suicide prevention training for construction workers

By Thomas Tevlin on 13 August 2026

Hidden Hazards. Recognise Risks. Protect Lives

By British Safety Council on 30 July 2026

Employers must adapt risk assessments to ageing workforce, HSE warns

By Belinda Liversedge on 29 July 2026

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Distraction from driver-assistance tech emerges as leading road safety risk, study warns

By Belinda Liversedge on 27 July 2026

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UK employers underestimating burnout as 15-point wellbeing perception gap emerges

By Belinda Liversedge on 22 July 2026

Safety Management Magazine features

Why contact with electricity is this year’s leading powered access safety challenge

Electrocutions and electric shocks were the leading cause of reported fatal and major incidents involving powered access equipment worldwide in 2025, so it’s vital that those operating such equipment ensure they have suitable procedures, training and supervision in place to ensure safe work near overhead powerlines and other electrical infrastructure.

By Brian Parker, IPAF on 14 September 2026

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What half a century of data has taught us about preventing falls in scaffolding operations

By NASC (National Access & Scaffolding Confederation) on 11 September 2026

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The Unipart Way: our journey to Zero Harm

By Kirsty Summerby, Unipart on 08 September 2026

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Falls from height: progress made, but risks remain

By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 08 September 2026

Safety Management Prosecutions

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Company fined £300,000 after surgeons forced to save man’s arm after it is severed by machine

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