If you discovered your country was losing up to £78 billion a year, you would want to do something about it, right? Well, that is how much the UK loses to workplace sickness and ill health each year.
By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 02 April 2024
In 1907, William Willett campaigned for a simple but significant addendum to time. Having noticed an imbalance of daylight in the summer, he proposed ‘savings’ to preserve liveable post-work hours. If everyone, in sync, agreed to adjust their watch a few times per year, this simple expedient would “make for health and strength of body and mind”. It caught on. The 4 Day Week Campaign has a simple, not dissimilar, objective.
By Samuel Hunt and Aliyah Davies, 4 Day Week Campaign on 25 March 2024
A review of academic papers suggests the impact of homeworking on employees’ wellbeing, productivity and working relationships often depends on a variety of personal contextual factors, making it essential for managers to consult workers individually to identify how best to support them.
By Charlotte Hall and Professor Neil Greenberg, King's College London on 09 April 2024
The public can play a practical role in supporting scientific understanding of problems like air pollution.
By Mike Robinson FCA on 14 June 2021
When a group of MPs (Members of Parliament) call for ‘precaution’ to address an unproven link between an exposure and a disease, it invites applause as well as healthy scepticism. Such a call prompts especially these two questions: (1) are the authors truly interpreting the science in a ‘precautionary’ way?; and (2) are they calling for specific action(s) that truly embody precaution?
By Professor Adam Finkel, University of Michigan School of Public Health on 14 September 2021
There are obligations and responsibilities when operating as a charity that do not necessarily bear on every individual or organisation in the public eye.
By Lawrence Waterman OBE on 11 July 2019
Ignoring what’s staring you in the face is a pretty normal reaction and most of the time doesn’t do us too much harm.
By Mike Robinson FCA on 01 March 2019
The recent story of diminishing public investment in HSE and local authority enforcement has sometimes been justified as a necessary focus on the higher hazards against everyday risks.
By Mike Robinson FCA on 17 October 2019
One of the common experiences of older safety practitioners is the frustrating sense of déjà vu when reading accident investigation reports.
By Lawrence Waterman OBE on 01 December 2019
Years of underfunding, overwork and underpay at Britain’s principal workplace safety regulator have created a capacity, staffing and skills crisis that threatens its ability to keep people safe at work.
By Mike Clancy, Prospect on 11 July 2023
The recent tragic disappearance of a worker from a floating offshore drilling rig in the North Sea has highlighted concerns UK authorities have insufficient powers to regulate the safety of vessels operating in the UK’s offshore oil, gas and renewables industry.
By Darren Procter, RMT on 09 July 2023
At the time of writing, the facts are still emerging about why thousands of UK flights had to be cancelled or delayed on August bank holiday Monday. But the incident raises vital questions for safety professionals everywhere.
By Mike Robinson FCA, British Safety Council on 04 September 2023
Small businesses are the lifeblood of our economy. Organisations with under 500 staff employ just over 60 per cent of people working in the private sector in the UK.
By Mike Robinson, British Safety Council on 14 July 2023
