So what’s happened, what is new and what is about to hit us? These were the main questions at our annual seminar when we started it five years ago. We spent all morning discussing the shifting landscape of health and safety. And, it was shifting back then. We were just coming off the back of the governments’ commissioned review by Lord Young in 2010 on the fitness for purpose of our current system and then in 2011 the Lofstedt Review looked at reducing the burden of Health an

That’s to say, a good COSHH Risk Assessment. It’s sometimes easy to overlook the fact that a COSHH Assessment is in fact a Risk Assessment, and that’s not even mentioning the fact that some people could be talking about the Materials Safety Data Sheet ( MSDS). Anyway, what would it look like? Well, that’s the first point, because there are so many different kinds that it’s just not possible to go by appearances, except to say that bigger does not mean better. Like any Risk As

October 10 is Mental Health Day, having been inaugurated in 1992. It hasn’t received as much publicity as some other campaigns over the years, though when we consider how prevalent mental ill-health is today, we might wonder why this campaign is not especially high profile. Possibly it’s to do with the fact that health has habitually taken second place to safety in our workplace risk assessments, being less obviously tied to causal events, even though overall more working day