Safety

Fifty years after the Health and Safety Executive was created, is it still fit for purpose today? When a pile of coal waste crashed down a hill onto a school and row of houses killing 116 children and 28 adults at Aberfan in October 1966, no one was prosecuted. Industrial safety at the time was

TOPLINE: A retrospective analysis finds no adverse events (AEs) in children receiving a live attenuated vaccine against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella (MMRV) while on dupilumab or methotrexate treatment, challenging current recommendations. METHODOLOGY: Researchers conducted a retrospective search of electronic medical records at a pediatric tertiary care center between 2017 and 2023, identifying patients who

Peter Baker has retired as  head of the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), which sits within the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). He will also, therefore, no longer serve as HSE’s chief inspector of buildings. HSE director of regulation Philip White (an ex-head of the organisation’s construction division) will take over Baker’s responsibilities on an interim

The new Building Safety Regulator (BSR) is targeting former police officers to join its team and help bring criminal prosecutions. The body, which is part of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), is currently trying to ramp up its complement of staff and has started advertising on Police Oracle, a news and jobs website for

Bills ostensibly aimed at making the internet safer for children and teens have been popping up all over the United States recently. Dozens of bills in states including Utah, Arkansas, Texas, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York have been introduced in the last few months. They are at least partly a response to concerns, especially among

Encryption technology used by Ukraine to defend against the Russian invasion could be placed at risk by measures in the Online Safety Bill currently passing through Parliament. The CEO of a company that supplies end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology used in Ukraine has warned that proposals in the bill to require automatic scanning of messages before

Steve Marr is compliance director at distributor SIG and interim CEO of Construction Product Information Ltd “It’s hard to build safe buildings without safe products,” said Geoffrey Brown of the Office for Product Safety and Standards at last month’s Building a Safer Future Conference. It’s hard to argue with that. It’s also hard to change

As part of efforts to reduce road accidents on the Accra Kumasi Highway this festive season, the National Road Safe Authority has been engaging drivers on that stretch. According to the authority, the decision to embark on the drive alive road safety campaign is a result of the worrying statistics being recorded annually during the