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Women’s safety campaigners are calling the Home Office’s backing of an app that allows users to track their friends’ journeys home “insulting". Read More
January 5, 2022
A Technical Report has been published by the HSE to coincide with the publication of the annual set of national statistics on health and safety at work. Read More
October 11, 2021
SHP speaks to Sarah Waters, Professor of French studies at the University of Leeds, who has recently published a report, with Hilda Palmer from Hazards Campaign, looking into 12 suicide cases that occurred between 2015 and 2020 to discover whether they could be attributed to the workplace. Read More
September 22, 2021
Retail trade union Usdaw has said it is disappointed by the government's response to a report from a cross-party committee of MPs that recommended a new criminal offence to protect shop workers, following an upsurge in violence and abuse. Read More
September 6, 2021
Union USDAW has urged shop workers to ‘report it to sort it,’ after preliminary results from a study highlighted the levels of abuse faced by retail staff. Read More
September 1, 2021
A new study conducted in May this year of over 1,000 security professionals from Workingthedoors.co.uk has revealed the levels of verbal and physical violence security staff receive while at work. Read More
July 14, 2021
SHP speaks to Sam Watts, PepsiCo EHS Specialist, who was named SHP’s Award for Rising Star in Manufacturing. Read More
July 12, 2021
Violence and abuse against shop workers is on the rise but the perpetrators are rarely prosecuted, according to new research. Read More
June 21, 2021
A new workers’ watchdog is to be created to protect the rights of UK workers, the government has confirmed. Read More
June 16, 2021
In this article Helen Beers from the Health and Safety Executive and Sheena Johnson from the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester discuss work-related violence and aggression – the importance of staff reporting incidents to their employers, and of employers understanding the problem and taking action to prevent it. Read More