National Compliance and Risk Qualifications (NCRQ) are qualifications designed to improve the competence of health and safety practitioners. The NCRQ suite of qualifications was set up to provide ...

Reports of fires breaking out due to the increased use of Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are on the rise. Speaking at FIREX 2023, Matt Humby, Senior Technical Sales Consultant at Firechief Global, ...

Katy Robinson is spearheading a PPE campaign targeting the Yorkshire construction sector. Here, she explains its origin, the progress made, and why there is still much to do. As a woman who’s been ...

Over 150 schools have now been identified as having Reinforced Autoclave Aerated Concrete (RAAC) in their buildings. Law firm Fieldfisher LLP offers legal advice on the ramifications. Following the ...

In the spirit of learning, I recently asked people in the ‘new-view’ Human & Organisational Performance (HOP) [i] world how they translate high-level Human Performance (HP) principles into actions to ...

Fifteen Year 3 pupils, aged between seven and eight, and their teacher had the ceiling collapse onto them at Rosemead Preparatory School in London, at around 9.30am on 15 November 2021. Tables and ...

Every single day, lone workers face a myriad of different health and safety risks and hazards…SHP hears from Dakota Murphey, who takes a closer look at lone worker safety. Lone working refers to any ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is drafting new guidelines for tradesmen working with engineered stone after report shows increased risk to silicosis. HSE is asking for industry feedback from ...

Two fifths of people in the construction industry believe an accident is “inevitable” on their sites, research has revealed. The study also showed almost half of respondents believed their boss could ...

In the early hours of 14 June 2017, the tragic Grenfell Tower fire unfolded in West London, claiming 72 lives and leaving over 70 injured. This devastating incident not only displaced numerous ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual statistics on work-related fatalities, with 138 workers killed in work-related accidents, up from 136 last year. The figure has ...

In this joint article, health and safety strategist Dr Bob Rajan and RoSPA’s Head of Global Relations Dr Karen McDonnell look at how AI could reduce the age-old issue of slips, trips and falls in the ...