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- Tackling stress ? Harrogate NHS case study (11/03/2010)
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust give nurses more time to care. This project will add value to the patient experience by maintaining high quality of care; achieving higher levels of job satisfaction and going beyond patients expectations. Tackling stress – Harrogate NHS case study - Food and drink manufacture website rebranded (11/03/2010)
The food and drink manufacturing industry actually comprises over 30 different industries. These range from slaughterhouses, sugar refineries and grain mills to malt manufacture and whisky distilling. The rebranded website includes a new design, new features, better navigation, resources… Food and drink manufacture website rebranded - HSE Chair Speech ? Health and safety challenges for nuclear construction (11/03/2010)
- Event aims to keep London?s stonemasons safe (11/03/2010)
- Building company fined for putting workers at risk (11/03/2010)
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- Subsidised training available as part of new campaign - March 02 2010
The HSE is offering subsidised training courses as part of a new campaign to get workers more involved in health & safety... - DWP issues fit note guidance - March 02 2010
- Myth of the month - March 02 2010
- Taking control of hazardous liquids - March 02 2010
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- BAE pays £198,000 for lack of supervision with “explosive consequences” (15/01/2010)
Global arms manufacturer BAE Systems has been handed a £198,000 penalty following a fatal explosion at its Lancashire munitions plant.Lynda Wilkins died on 2 March 2005 while using lead styphnate, a highly volatile primary explosive used in detonators, which can be set off by static discharges from the human body. Though the HSE said it was unable to determine the exact cause of the blast, as Wilkins had been working ... - Rating the boss cuts stress (14/01/2010)
Encouraging staff to tell their line managers what they think of them could reduce workplace stress, according to new research co-funded by the HSE, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and the HR standard provider Investors in People UK.The study, presented this week at the British Psychological Society's occupational psychology conference, focused on the line manager-employee relationship, which it found to be the most commonly reported cause of work-related ... - New Seveso site details potential COMAH changes (13/01/2010)
- Challenge to Scottish pleural plaques law rejected (12/01/2010)
- Unguarded guillotine severed four fingers (11/01/2010)