All Health & Safety articles – Page 8
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Analysis
Hsc ready reckoner
The UK Health & Safety Commission (HSC) has introduced a ready reckoner for British businesses
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Features
Safe Travel
Street crime is a bigger threat for business travellers than terrorism, says Jake Stratton
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Features
Employees – Your Greatest Risk Exposure
John Humphrey and Barbara Dahill describe strategies for managing employment risk, while Lynn Drennan outlines the key findings of recent research
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Innocents Abroad?
Businesses should make sure that their employees are streetwise. Keith Miller has some tips for travellers.
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Analysis
Stress claim dismissed
An office manager who brought a claim against her employers for work-related stress has had her case dismissed.
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Features
Railtrack: Governance under Pressure
Lee Coppack discusses whether Railtrack's failure to manage safety risks and maintain shareholder value could have been avoided.
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Features
Deadly cost of driving
Ten people are killed and 1,000 more are injured on Britain’s roads every day.
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Reassessing longtail exposures
A recent court decision will cause some companies to reassess their liabilities where past operations have exposed their employees and others to asbestos.
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Features
Don't risk employee claims
Increasing complex employment legislation, coupled with broad definitions of "workers" and high awards, are putting pressure on companies. Who would be an employer? asks Rachel Dineley.
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Analysis
Ergonomic solution to MSDs
After 10 years' research, the American Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has released an ergonomics programme standard.
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Features
The hazardous office
How safe are your company's offices? Rosalind Benjamin gives some guidelines on assessing and removing dangers.
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Putting a price on life
Mike Hanley discusses the cost benefit problems of increasing the safety of the railways.
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Analysis
UK ruling alerts ALARM
The UK House of Lords ruling on 27 July in Phelps v London Borough of Hillingdon has important risk management implications for local education authorities and the public sector in general.
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Features
Early intervention and rehabilitation
David Shillaker says getting injured employees back to work quickly can benefit your bottom line.
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Analysis
European stress research
The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work has published a report which recognises work-related stress as an increasing risk for Europe's workforce.
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Features
Health, safety and reputation
A recent survey shows that health and safety issues have a significant influence on corporate reputation. Neville Purvis believes companies should take a positive approach.
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Analysis
H&S policy proposals
Solicitors Lovells have summarised a UK-wide 44-point action plan of policy initiatives and proposals for future legislation to cut workplace deaths, injuries and illness.
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Analysis
Kidnapping: New record in 1999
Worldwide kidnaps for ransom reached a record peak in 1999, according to a survey by specialist insurer, the Hiscox Group.
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Analysis
Insurers comment on pain and suffering awards
In its March ruling the Court of Appeal considered the Law Commission's proposals on levels of damages for pain and suffering.
