Insights

10th January 2025

I started my first insight of 2024 with the major issues many of us were dealing with because of Storm Henk. In re-reading it, both commercially and domestically, 2025 is looking to be posing similar issues for parts of the country.

6th January 2025

With an update to the UK England and Wales Legionella outbreak statistics release by the HSE at the end of last year, what is the information telling us about Legionella control?

19th December 2024

Amey Community Limited, was fined £600,000 (plus £15,186.85 in costs) last week related to the death of an inmate at HMP Lincoln in 2017 from Legionnaires’ disease.

17th December 2024

During the House of Commons debate on the Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 report, Deputy Prime minister, Angela Rayner announced the Government intention to review the guidance to the building regulations (Approved Documents).

12th December 2024

Having been off work for the last week (hip surgery) and playing a little catch-up, I have only just got to the latest Health and Safety Executive (HSE) bulletin (2nd December 2024).

28th November 2024

The IWFM Sustainability Report for 2024 was published this week, with two of the headline findings being…

22nd November 2024

This week has seen the publication of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) annual statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries.

1st November 2024

A safety control measure listed in a risk assessment as ‘supervision’ is something that I often see. Firstly, ‘supervision’ is dependent on human behaviour, so it is not a failsafe.