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If we want to reduce road carnage by the same magnitude as we have work deaths and injuries at work, we must start to regard driving for work in the same way, says John Davidge FORTY years ago in [...]

Chiropractor Rosina Ghassemi looks at the problem of children carrying overweight backpacks and offers some advice to combat the damage that is being done to young people’s bodies. Many kids [...]

Business owners have long relied on instruments and the people around them to overcome risks successfully. But new areas of risk are constantly being added and new ‘tools’ constantly have to be [...]

Presenteeism is one of those made-up words that hasn’t quite made it into the most respected dictionaries or they haven’t quite agreed on what it means. But for those of us who are involved in HR [...]

Cardinus LLC working in partnership with Ergo Concepts LLC, are hosting a free-to-attend workshop considering the future of workplace ergonomics. We have some great speakers running engaging, [...]

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have said that helping workers feel better at work is about improving positive factors, not just reducing the negative ones and that the amount of [...]

Recent research from Washington State University has found that looking at a tablet computer puts three to five times more strain on users’ neck muscles than when the neck is not bent. The amount [...]

Improved education and training is likely to have produced better and safer drivers, contributing to another fall in the number of road casualties in the UK, according to the Department for [...]

More than a quarter of all road traffic incidents involve somebody who is driving as part of their work at the time. Health and safety law applies to work activities on the road in the same way [...]

Up to 80% of all accidents can be attributed in full or in part to human factors.(1) A new set of playing cards, developed by the Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL), make it easy for your teams, [...]