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British businesses fined more than £44m per year for OSH regulatory breaches

Business Compliance, Health & Safety, Management /
Prosecution charges for health and safety violations are rising year on year, with businesses racking up millions in fines, says Breathe HR, which helps more than 17,000 small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with their health and safety compliance processes. After making a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to the HSE to access data on workplace health and safety violations and fines recorded between January 2021 and March 2026, Breathe HR discovered that, collectively, British firms were fined, on average, nearly £44.1m annually across this five-year period.…

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Hidden in plain sight

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Confronting modern slavery in today’s economy Published in 2026 by IOSH Foreword By Eleanor Lyons UK Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner Modern slavery is hidden in plain sight. It exists not only in places far from view, but within the systems, products and services that shape everyday life. Across supply chains, workplaces and transport routes, exploitation is too often embedded in the global economy: in the clothes we wear, the food we buy, the technology we use and the services on which we depend.…

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Employers urged to act on workplace heat risks as temperatures rise

Business Compliance, Health & Safety /
Great Britain’s safety regulator has called on employers to assess and manage the risks posed by extreme heat, warning that hotter summers could have significant implications for worker health, safety and productivity. The warning from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) follows a heat-health alert issued by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and comes as parts of the UK experience unusually high temperatures.…

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Businesses urged to check waste bins after fatal incident involving rough sleeper

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Businesses and waste operators are being reminded of the importance of checking commercial waste bins, particularly during winter, following a fatal incident in which a man seeking shelter was killed after entering a recycling container. In May 2024, 36-year-old Vitalij Maceljuch climbed into a cardboard recycling bin behind a kitchen store in Chester to escape the cold.…

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25 years on from the UK’s final asbestos ban, the material remains the biggest cause of work-related deaths

Construction, Education, Health & Safety, Management, Uncategorized /
This month marks the 25th anniversary since legislation came into force across Great Britain and in Northern Ireland (the UK) making it illegal for anyone to buy, sell, import or export any materials containing asbestos. Laid before parliament in August 1999, but brought into force on 24 November of that year, the Asbestos (Prohibitions) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 extended existing controls to include all remaining asbestos containing materials, notably Chrysotile (white) asbestos; legislation in 1985 had banned the importation of Amosite (brown) asbestos and Crocidolite (blue) asbestos, which are more hazardous to human health.…

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MAJORITY WANT HSW ACT REVISED, STUDY REVEALS

Business Compliance, Health & Safety, Management /
Thursday 11th July 2024   Research undertaken by safety technology provider Dräger Safety UK suggests that more than nine in 10 respondents would like to revisit Great Britain’s Health and Safety at Work Act so it has a greater focus on mental health and wellbeing.   The Dräger Safety and Health at Work Report 2024, published this week, found that 97% of the 250 managers and 94% of the 750 employees polled feel Great Britain’s main piece of health and safety legislation should be revised so that it considers changing workplaces and different working styles.…

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ITALIAN PROSECUTORS INVESTIGATE ALLEGED WORKER EXPLOITATION LINKED TO FASHION BRANDS’ SUPPLY CHAINS

Business Compliance /
Prosecutors and police in Milan have been investigating whether workers have been exploited in supply chains linked to a dozen fashion brands as an extension of a long-standing probe into workers allegedly operating under illegal conditions.  A court in the Italian fashion capital appointed a special commissioner last week (10 June) to judicially administer an Italian-based subsidiary of French fashion giant Christian Dior, which is owned by French luxury giant LVMH, for a year.…

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Equalities Watchdog Highlights Employers’ Legal Obligations in New Menopause in the Workplace Guidance

Business Compliance, Case Study, Charities, Construction, Education, Health & Safety, Leisure and Entertainment, Management, Manufacturing and Engineering, Retail, Uncategorized /
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has published new guidance on menopause in the workplace to help employers understand their legal obligations relating to women who are going through the menopause as well as details on the support they should provide affected employees. This includes advice on making reasonable adjustments for women who are experiencing the menopause so they can continue to contribute to work and encouraging positive conversations about this personal issue to help create a safe and supportive work environment.…

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Only 1 in 3 Cancer Sufferers Satisfied with Employer Support

Health & Safety, Management, Retail /
Just a third of workers who have had cancer feel satisfied that their employer made ‘reasonable adjustments’ to their job to help them manage their long-term health condition, new research has revealed. The Opinium Research study, undertaken for back-to-work rehabilitation specialist Working To Wellbeing, found that only 36% of respondents were satisfied with the adjustments made. …

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Investigating the impact of behaviour change techniques on break taking at work

Case Study, Construction, Health & Safety, Retail /
IntroductionMusculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) remain a major health problem, with insufficientpostural change at work implicated in their prevalence. Self-report data suggest thatoffice workers sit for long periods without getting up1.The Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) outlines a number of factors thought toimpact on intention to behave in a certain way, highlighting (though not addressing) agap between intention and behaviour.…

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Workers are feeling the heat – so, what are we doing to help?

Health & Safety, Management, Retail /
While the media rages with reports of the devastation caused by wildfires, storms, droughts and crop failures, IOSH’s Dr Karen Michell considers the impact of extreme weather events and excessive heat on workers – and what employers and OSH professionals can do to help protect them. Dramatic headlines and film footage of the climate crisis shout at us on almost a daily basis.…

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