After a series of adverse incidents, the UK offshore energy industry health and safety record has shown progressive improvement — and not by chance. As the economics of energy continue to make life difficult, there has also been a step-change reduction in incidents and injuries. Jon Herbert reports. Offshore, 2010 was a bad year for   Read More …

Working with rock, soil and concrete exposes many workers to silica dust, one of the UK’s five big industrial lung cancer killers. Jon Herbert looks at how hundreds of lives can be saved annually. Silica dust is responsible for some 800 industrial deaths a year. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) ranks it as the   Read More …