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- Safety tool relaunched online following major upgrade
A tool to help companies measure their safety culture
and develop simple, evidence-based improvements has been relaunched
following a major upgrade.
The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), an agency of the Health
and Safety Executive,...
- Measuring safety culture in your organisation
In recent years, much has been done to significantly reduce the
number of accidents and occurrences of ill-health in the workplace.
The design of equipment has evolved to protect the worker more
effectively, most organisations have procedures...
- HSL’s expert Nina Day makes UK roads safer
Road haulage plays a vital role in keeping the UK economy
running smoothly, but the risks associated with the sector are not
always as well understood as they could be. In her role as a senior
engineer at HSL, Nina Day has accumulated many years...
- Dame Sue Ion amongst UK’s 100 most influential women
Dame Sue Ion, HSL's Non Executive Director, has been chosen as
one of the 100 women on the first BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour Power
List.
The list is intended to serve as snapshot of the most powerful
British women, or women operating...
- Vomiting Larry Goes Viral!
Winter Vomiting Virus has been very much in the news of late
due to the recent major outbreaks of norovirus, which causes this
illness. A recent article on the BBC news website has highlighted
the work that the Health and Safety Laboratory...
- HSL Inspires Young Engineers
HSL has been helping to inspire a new generation of engineers
through a project funded by the Royal Academy of Enginnering
(RAE).
'Ingenious' is a public engagement grant scheme which the RAE
established in order to make engineering...
- HSL Helps to Set Olympic Record
As records are being broken on a daily basis at the London 2012
Games, there's an equally impressive record that was set before the
first race was run or the first javelin thrown - and HSL played a
part in setting it!
The health and safety...
- HSL Welcomes a New Non-Executive Director
HSL has a new non-executive Director. Martyn Thomas joins
Sue Ion, Peter Watson and Richard Stephenson as the latest recruit
to the Board.
Martyn is an independent consultant software engineer with
particular expertise in safety-related...
- HSL Signs Memorandum with TNO
HSL CEO Eddie Morland recently signed a Memorandum of
Understanding with independent research organisation TNO at their
premises in Hoofddorp in the Netherlands.
Eddie signed the memorandum alongside Paulien Bongers, TNO's
Director...
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