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HSE report shows rise in workplace fatalities The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its latest set of statistics for workplace deaths, and 2023/24 makes grim reading with numbers once again rising, and construction and agricultural workers being most at risk. The report, Work-related fatal injuries in Great Britain, 2024, says that: “The construction and […]
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Check out this article in the IOSH website about the 11% rise in work related stress reported by the Health & Safety Executive in their annual report. Very worrying for employers and unions. The HSE believe that nearly half of these workers b…Read more…
Hat tip to the Health & Safety Executive & IOSH. If you care about stress at work and what to do about it then give this short quiz a go.”A report from Deloitte puts the total annual cost of poor mental health to UK employers at £56 billion – t…Read more…
Unite delegate Dave Allan made a powerful intervention at the second day of TUC conference on Wednesday (October 19) in defence of social model language. Dave, who is Unite’s disabled workers rep on the executive council and co-chair of the Disabled Workers’ Committee, reminded conference that it has long “supported the social model of disability […]
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Check out this excellent article in the Guardian by PIRC researcher, Alice Martin, about the massive under reporting scandal of workplace deaths and infections from Covid.
“At Pensions and Investments Research Consultancy (PIRC), we’ve been tr…Read more…
A damning report by PIRC here into the failure of many UK food processing plants (the UK’s biggest manufacturing sector) to properly report the deaths of their workers from Covid_19 to the Health & Safety Executive and to take effective actio…Read more…
Unite, which represents thousands of workers employed throughout Heathrow airport, is warning that Heathrow Airport Limited’s (HAL) contingency plans during the ongoing strike action have failed to…Read more…
Unite has called on the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to end its delay and publish its initial findings into a major crane accident last month in Bow, East London, which killed one person and…Read more…
Unite has accused Westminster council and the Health and Safety Executive of inaction which could place workers lives in danger, after it notified both organisations of workers illegally living on a…Read more…
I was very pleased to read that, between February 2016 and February 2017, the total value of fines imposed on businesses for health and safety offences was £73.2 million. That was up from £35.4…Read more…
Unions have long been critical of the failure of the HSE to regulate and enforce on occupational health risks. For instance we have asked for specific regulations on stress, lower exposure limits on…Read more…
Yesterday I attended the HSE stress summit in London for the launch of their new stress campaign. The conference went well and the main thrust of the conference was on the importance of prevention,…Read more…
Yesterday the Government published their response to a report from the House of Commons Women and Equalities Committee into pregnancy and maternity discrimination. Quite a bit of that original report…Read more…
“Stone” worktops in kitchens are becoming very fashionable in Britain, yet how many people know that they are killing the workers who make or install them? I only found out it because I ordered a new…Read more…
Last month the Government appointed an employer to represent workers on the HSE board. This totally undermined the principle of an equal voice for employers and workers that is enshrined in the…Read more…
On Friday the Government announced a number of new appointments to the board of the Health and Safety Executive. The DWP did not indicate who they were representing when they made the announcement…Read more…
On various occasions I have criticised the Government’s reliance on “nudge theory”. The biggest use of it in the workplace health area was the Responsibility Deal which the Government quietly closed…Read more…
The HSE have recently launched a new strategy called “Helping Great Britain work well”. It has six themes – Acting together; tackling ill health; managing risk well; supporting small employers;…Read more…
I have just read a paper that was produced a couple of months ago on health and safety inspections conducted by Local Authorities. They inspect the majority of workplaces, including most offices,…Read more…
16 November 2015
By Phil James
New HSE statistics covering the year 2014-15 report a rise in work-related fatal injuries, suggest that national health and safety performance may be stagnating and…Read more…