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FURTHER HSE REVOCATION CONSULTATION
The HSE has issued a consultative document on further proposals to remove 14 legislative measures and to withdraw approval for an associated Approved Code of Practice (ACoP).
May 2012 Volume 35 Number 5
REGULATORY DELIVERY AND GROWTH
The newly formed Better Regulation Delivery Office (BRDO) says in a discussion paper that regulatory delivery can impact on growth
FIT NOTE INFORMATION ‘INADEQUATE’
Employers questioned for DWP research said that they received few fit notes stating that an employee ‘may be fit for work’.
May 2012 Volume 35 Number 5
NOT ALL EMPLOYERS ARE INSURED
Despite it being compulsory, 4.6 per cent of employers questioned for an HSE Research Report said that they did not have Employers' Liability (Compulsory Insurance).
April 2012 Volume 35 Number 4
EFFICIENT SAFETY COMMITTEE TIPS
The Canadian Safety organisation CCOHS offers 10 tips to help make health and safety committee meetings run better:
April 2012 Volume 35 Number 4
AND FINALLY. . .
Class War is not dead! According to research published by the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America upper-class individuals behave more unethically than lower-class individuals.
April 2012 Volume 35 Number 4
DIRECTOR PROSECUTIONS RISE
The number of directors prosecuted under s.37 of the HSWA in the last ten years is at a record high, according to figures released under a Freedom of Information requesT.
february 2012 Volume 35 Number 2
AGENCY UPDATES GUIDANCE ON STACK MONITORING
The Environment Agency has updated its Technical Guidance Note (TGN 2) on stack monitoring. The guide is designed to help enforcers (which also makes it useful for operators) and is a technical reference to the Agency's Monitoring Certification Scheme (MCERTS) and Operator Monitoring Assessment (OMA) Scheme.
February 2012 Volume 35 Number 2
AND FINALLY. . .
Bed bugs have been making a comeback since the 1990’s, according to Canadian safety organisation CCOHS.
SAFETY LESSONS FROM THE OLYMPICS
HSE research looks to share lessons from the Olympic Park construction.
December 2011 Volume 34 Number 12
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