Opinion

Every chief executive is concerned with the bottom line and not for no reason. Reducing operating costs to maximize profit is the fundamental policy of any successful business. A poor profit margin can sink even the most promising of companies. Expenses are an unavoidable reality and the cost of doing business. The trick is to […]

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Safety Innovations in the workplace can be defined as any new and combined intervention, this article will discuss innovation in the field of safety technologies. Innovations in safety can range from purely technical advances to simple changes in practice norms. The goal of any implemented innovation is to increase worker safety, wellbeing, and engagement, resulting […]

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How feedback (of all forms) brings the awareness to kick off a behavioural change Feedback can assume many different shapes. And now, due to the tech insurgence it’s being thrown at you more than you are probably aware. Do you turn off your smartphone-generated ‘Weekly Screen Time Report’ or do you face it and try […]

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Exploring employee hazardous movement data can assist Health and Safety professionals involve substantive ‘‘upstream’’ organizational change Work-related injuries are a complex and costly problem. Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) are among the most widely spread occupational issues in industries and services, with increasing expenses of salary compensation and health costs, declining productivity and lower quality of life. […]

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Effective supply chain operates like a well-oiled machine. But like all machines, there are people behind it. In the case of logistics – many people. The headache for almost every operations leader is to keep their people productive 24/7, otherwise, the machine will skid. When it comes to declining productivity in the workforce, the main […]

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Manual handling training is an essential requirement for every organization that wants to guarantee a safe workplace. Statistical data demonstrates that 21% of non-fatal injuries that occur in the workplace are caused by poorly managed operations.  Everyone who works within the manual materials handling arena is obliged to comply with the strict regulations that involve […]

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An easy way to determine credibility is to simply look at how a company values safety. Adhering to the new gold standard that ISO 45001 tends to acknowledge shows any customers and the public that employee safety is important to your organisation. Obviously, an invaluable undertaking to possess. Recently, different technologies have begun being implemented […]

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Being actively safe at work is more effective when risks can be tracked, compared, shared, learning can be adapted into everyday behaviour and workers have the agency to manage their own musculoskeletal wellbeing. Toni-Louise Gianatti explains how wearable tech has been adopted by Travis Perkins Group PLC to provide a new, accepted, and proven method […]

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Technology is moving into different industries and areas of our life. Recently, different technologies have begun being implemented to assist and increase safety at the workplace. The use of wearable technology has opened a new era in ergonomics. Risk assessment nowadays can be performed with the use of technology and technical measurements offer the opportunity […]

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