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Articles In Our Current Issue
Glove Selection
How to select disposable gloves
Disposable gloves in a galaxy of colours are everywhere in the workplace. Indeed if we think about it, there are countless tasks in the workplace that entail the wearing of disposable gloves.
Author | Nick Gardner
Going Through Fire For Your Safety
A look inside the ‘textile torture chamber’ for PPE
The Hohenstein Institute offers testing, certification and research to do with textiles. This means it’s more than possible that managers responsible for the procurement of workwear for their organisation will have been influenced in some way by the product safety expertise Hohenstein has. Testing Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) is an expanding part of Hohenstein’s work. Mariana Schubert, Head of the PPE Test Centre, gives us an insight into the work of her team.
Author | Mariana Schubert and Barbara Schrobsdorff, Hohenstein Institute
Have RPE - Will Travel
Factors influencing the implementation of RPE in the workplace
How does crossing the Atlantic, the English Channel, or even national borders within mainland Europe affect the level of protection that RPE provides? Technically it shouldn’t, but in practice it currently does. The same person, doing the same job in different countries is deemed to achieve different levels of protection from the same piece of RPE that they wear. This article explains why, holds out hope of a solution for the future and invites you to be part of the solution.
Author | mike.clayton
Hearing Protection
Most hearing conservation programmes are ineffective
Most of the workers expected to use hearing protection either get no protection whatsoever or the performance of their PPE is inadequate. The implications of these findings published in the UK in a recent HSE report are far reaching.
Author | Peter Wilson
Safety Case and Beyond
Providing appropriate, effective safety systems is clearly important in maintaining and improving the safety performance of a large scale industrial asset or organisation, but perhaps equally important is creating and encouraging a positive safety culture throughout the organisation.
Author | Nick Lamb and Alison Pegram
Safety From the Floor to Your Footwear
While quite rightly much attention is given to ensuring workforces wear suitable footwear, it’s important to get to the base of the matter - quite literally, to the floor. Engineering consultants Mark Pillinger and George Sotter join forces to discuss Sustainable Slip Resistance in a bid to minimise a commonplace hazard - slips and falls in the workplace.
Author | Mark Pillinger & George Sotter
Working at Height
According to the Health and Safety Executive in the UK there were 3,956 serious injuries due to falls from height from April 2010 to March 2011. That is a lot of injuries and a lot of lost time
at work.
Author | David Gault
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