When Was the Last Time You Checked Your First Aid Kit?
When Was the Last Time You Checked Your First Aid Kit? Expiry Dates, Stock, and Ownership How many of us have checked our first aid kit and found out-of-date items? Or have you gone hunting for a plaster, only to find they have all gone and haven’t been replaced? If these scenarios are familiar to […]
Back to Basics: Managing Noise at Work
Back to Basics: Managing Noise at Work The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 (the Noise Regulations) aim to ensure that workers’ hearing is protected from excessive noise at their place of work. Loud noise at work can cause hearing damage that is permanent and disabling. This can be gradual, from exposure to noise […]
How to Start Better Safety Conversations at Work
How to Start a Safety Conversation Safety conversations happen every day in every organisation, but not all of them improve safety. Some conversations help people speak up, share what is really happening on the job, and fix risks early. Others shut people down, create defensiveness, or never happen at all. If you want a stronger […]
Why Integrated Risk Management Delivers Measurable Business Value
For organisations operating across multiple sites, teams, and risk profiles integrated risk management directly influences cost control, decision quality, operational resilience, and commercial credibility. When safety, health, environmental and quality risks are managed in disconnected systems, information fragments. Decisions slow. Problems repeat. Costs rise quietly through inefficiency, incidents, insurance exposure, and legal risk. Integrated risk […]
What to Include in a Permit to Work: Key Elements Explained
What to Include in a Permit to Work Whether you are a safety professional seeking to refine your understanding of permit management, or an industry newcomer eager to grasp the fundamentals, this guide aims to empower you with the knowledge needed to create and implement permits to work that stand the test of real-world challenges. […]
Working Under Pressure: Stress as a Safety Risk
Workplace stress and error: Key facts at a glance Recent findings highlighted by IOSH and research conducted by Astutis point to a sustained rise in workplace stress and its impact on day-to-day performance. High-level indicators: These findings highlight a growing operational issue with direct implications for safety, quality, and organisational resilience. When pressure becomes a […]
The Missing Data Behind Raynaud’s – Why It’s Time to Make a Change
Why silence around symptoms is holding back understanding, prevention, and care Raynaud’s affects millions of people in the UK, yet it remains one of the most under-reported circulatory conditions. Not because it is rare. Not because it is insignificant. But because it is normalised, self-managed, and often dismissed by the very people experiencing it. That silence has […]
Employment Rights Act 2025: What it Changes For Health and Safety in 2026–2027
Last year we covered the proposed Employment Rights Bill. With Royal Assent granted on 18 December 2025, it is now the Employment Rights Act 2025. For health and safety leaders, the value of this Act is in the changes to day-to-day working conditions, the predictability of work, how absence is handled, how change is imposed, […]
Driving for Work: What the New UK Road Safety Strategy Means for Employers
The government launched its new Road Safety Strategy on 6 January 2026, the first one in over a decade. It has been built to restart progress after a “lost decade” and cut deaths and serious injuries through a Safe System approach that treats serious harm as preventable, even when human error occurs. Key stats at a glance […]
Health and Safety Implications In An Ageing Workforce
With advancements in healthcare and a greater emphasis on work-life balance, many individuals are working longer than ever before. According to the ONS (Office for National Statistics), the employment rate of people aged 50 to 64 years has increased by 4% in the last 10 years and by 7.3% over the last 20 years. Businesses […]