Indoor air quality - do you need a policy?
29th February 2024
Currently, both building environment and wellbeing are very topical issues. Add to this a push by many organisations for people to ‘get back to the office’, are workplace and facilities managers missing an opportunity with indoor air quality (IAQ)?
Read moreAir pollution, air quality and the workplace
31st January 2024
Rightly, air quality and air pollution are high priority aspects, nationally and internationally. For decades, we have seen improvements in areas (Sulphur dioxide levels in the UK and the Montreal Protocol for Ozone depleting substances (ODS), are two examples), but increasingly factors both natural and man-made are causing persistent problems.
Read moreThe workplace - what’s in store for 2024?
19th December 2023
2024 sees the 50th anniversary of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974. Over the intervening period, we have seen considerable change to the operating landscape for organisations, and the buildings they operate from. But what does this anniversary year have in store for future developments and influences.
Read moreGB plc – health and safety performance in 2023
30th November 2023
Great Britain’s health and safety record is, by most measures, world class. That doesn’t mean we can afford to rest on such a performance. As any safety professional knows take your eyes off it, and it will try and catch you out!
Read moreRadon - what are the risks?
19th October 2023
Over the Summer a high-profile prosecution of a school in Bath, has raised questions about radon from organisations wanting to know what they need to do.
Our October whitepaper is taking a closer look at radon and some of the issues around assessing your risk and managing it.
Read moreWho is the Duty Holder?
29th September 2023
The changes to our building/fire legislation (see our previous whitepapers July 2023, November 2022 and August 2022), following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, have seen various people and organisations reviewing their roles and responsibilities.
Read morePutting your asbestos knowledge to the test
24th August 2023
Asbestos has been a widely used building material for the last 150 years. With a number of beneficial properties, it had a host of applications and was heralded as a ‘magic mineral’.
Read moreNew changes to the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
25th July 2023
As part of the myriad of changes in fire and building safety, resulting from the Grenfell tragedy in 2017, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order (RR(FS)O) 2005 is no exception.
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