Health, safety & environment

Letter to the new PM. IOSH has written to the Prime Minister encouraging his government to invest further in occupational health and safety legislation and the HSE to protect workers from harm. It has called for an improved focus on mental health, while adding it is encouraged by the government’s forthcoming Employment Rights Bill. Protections for those in gig work, the informal economy and in global supply chains, as well as the right to “switch off”, which Labour promised before the election, will be welcomed to improve the welfare of UK workers. ...

A man has been given a suspended jail sentence after carrying out illegal gas work and breaching an enforcement notice. What were the circumstances of the case and how can you avoid incompetent tradesmen?