One of the corporate health campaigns we tend to often see within various organizations is the seasonal flu awareness campaigns. Influenza is usually mild and most people recover quickly. However, this contagious respiratory illness caused by influenza viruses can have a significant impact on overall productivity and has been known to cause more employee absenteeism […]

Manual handling is one of the most common causes of injury at the workplace and results in over a third of all workplace injuries. Injuries which traditionally we believe that basic employee awareness in the form of manual handling training should be more than enough to eliminate forever! When planning employee or contractor training for […]

In the last couple of years of writing articles on here, I am often accused of only focusing on occupational health and safety and not enough on environmental and sustainability initiatives I am constantly involved with. Although I do admit that most of my experience, education and work has been on the health and safety […]

The use of mobile phone applications in health and safety has started to become so much more common over the last few years, to an extent that many organizations utilising HSE software in general have begun enhancing the capabilities of their programs by developing the mobile phone side of these applications. I have in this […]

With the sudden surge of information technology in our day to day lives over the last couple of decades, advances with regards to learning and employee development within organizations have taken some major strides. Computer based training or e-learning in the various industries particularly in the fields of health, safety and the environmental (HSE) has […]

When we speak about noise or hearing conservation at the work place, as health and safety practitioners, our mindset nearly always takes us to what we have learnt about controlling high levels of noise. We start going back to our tried and tested ways of measuring levels of sounds that are above the 85 Decibel […]

Stress at the workplace is something that in various degrees effects everyone at work. In today’s tough job market coupled with many economic uncertainties, work related stress is even more noticeable than it has ever been. As a result of much research in the area in recent years, in extreme cases, correlations between workplace stress, […]

One of the common topics that come up when general health and safety discussions are taking place is the future of the profession and what health and safety practitioners will likely be doing in say twenty or even thirty years’ from now. From the start of the profession in the early 1800’s when the Factories […]

Workplace health and wellness in recent years seems to be a major area of focus within many health and safety teams. In some ways, this looks like a lengthy and impossible journey with many leaders often questioning how effective these efforts can be in the long run and its benefits when it comes to overall […]