Failure to prevent life-threatening diseases caused by dust at work is unacceptable, says the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), as it gears up for a summer targeting construction sites across Great Britain. Supported by HSE’s Dust Kills campaign, which provides free advice to businesses and workers on the control measures required to prevent exposure to dust, the […]
We’re delighted to announce that our Work Right Construction ‘Your health. Your future’ campaign has won the ‘Best Use of New Media’ category at the Hire Awards of Excellence 2023. Work Right Construction: ‘Your health. Your future’ is the communications campaign that supported a Health and Safety Executive (HSE) construction site inspection initiative focusing on […]
Moving vehicles are the highest cause of deaths in British farming. We want to make 2023 a safer year on our farms by working together. In this new podcast, HSE agriculture sector lead Adrian Hodkinson and Eve Macready-Jones, from HSE’s agricultural policy team talk to Farmers Guardian’s news team about the launch of the ‘Work […]
Health in construction and HSE’s ‘Your health. Your future’ campaign webinar is now available on demand Construction is a high-risk industry for health issues. Every year more working days are lost due to work-related illness compared to injuries. Building on HSE’s July webinar on respiratory health and the ‘Dust Kills’ campaign, this webinar covers moving […]
Lifting and moving heavy objects on construction sites is harming the health of thousands of brickies and builders to such a degree every aspect of their lives is affected. Experts at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) are warning construction workers are picking up injuries and conditions that can stop them working and leave them […]
The Burnt Chef Project has joined forces with our Working Minds campaign to tackle work-related stress in the hospitality industry. The Burnt Chef Project will use Working Minds in its efforts to help hospitality professionals, who face long antisocial hours, tough environmental conditions and pressures to perform are just some of the issues on a […]
British Aggregates Association (BAA) has signed up as a Working Minds partner to support the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) campaign to tackle work-related stress in quarrying and mining. Work-related stress and poor mental health risk becoming a health and safety crisis for Great Britain’s workplaces, the regulator has warned. Statistics published by HSE show […]
By Sarah Meek, Managing Director at Mates in Mind As Managing Director of Mates in Mind, I know the impact that poor mental health combined with an unsupportive or uninformed workplace can have on an individual working in construction. Whilst there are well publicised statistics around the increased prevalence of suicide in construction being 4.7x […]
