Insights

1st November 2024

A safety control measure listed in a risk assessment as ‘supervision’ is something that I often see. Firstly, ‘supervision’ is dependent on human behaviour, so it is not a failsafe.

11th October 2024

The much-awaited Employment Rights Bill was published on Thursday 10^th October 2024. Was it what I was expecting after having read Labour’s Plan to Make Work Pay?

8th October 2024

Following changes through the Worker Protection (Amendment of Equality Act 2010) Act, a new legal duty is being placed upon employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment of their workers, including by third parties.

13th September 2024

While natural gas consumption has been dropping in the UK (in 2023 63.5bn m³ used, as opposed to approx. 100bn m³ at the turn of the century, according to information from National Gas, “more than half a million businesses and 23 million homes” receive supplies from them.

6th September 2024

It can seem daunting the prospect of throwing away health and safety records especially hard copy folders that have no online back-up, but the phrase 'health and safety gone mad' comes to mind when I see organisations holding on to temperature testing records from 2003.

23rd August 2024

This week the HSE released its annual statistics on work related fatalities including those from longer-term work-related ill-health.

20th August 2024

9th August 2024