An epidemiological prospective cohort study of the ability of the 1991 NIOSH Lifting Equation to predict loss of time from work due to low back pain (LBP) or to predict reports of LBP followed 515 industrial workers in jobs requiring manual handling for 18 months.
News from HSE
- 2012
- May
- April
- March
- February
- Updating COMAH – 18th HSE/EA/SIESO Workshop 30 April 2011, Manchester
- Quarry health and safety – Cutting injury and ill health to zero
- Film company fined after cameraman hurt on set
- London manufacturer fined for major safety breaches
- Leading horse trainer in court after worker’s fall
- RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2012 – Registration update for Scotland awards
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire
- Ports and Logistics sector data summary and analysis
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk
- Updating COMAH – 18th HSE/EA/SIESO Workshop 30 April 2012, Manchester
- Asbestos Where is it? – Free BAOHSF event Keighley 20 March 2012
- RR912 – Management of ageing: A framework for nuclear chemical facilities
- Printing industry: manual handling – what you need to know
- HSE Responds to Western Morning News article
- LC3 Consent to lease of building A709 to National Nuclear Laboratory Limited
- Air transport industry statistics report
- RR844 – An assessment of the level of compliance with the statutory duty to obtain insurance under the Employers’ Liability (Compulsory Insurance) Act 1969: Final Report
- West Cumbria Site Stakeholder Group Emergency Planning Working Group half yearly report
- Job vacancy – Chief Executive for the Health & Safety Executive for Northern Ireland
- Health and social care services FAQs – Health surveillance for occupational contact dermatitis
- Fatal injuries in farming, forestry, horticulture and associated industries 2010/11
- HSG261: Health and safety in motor vehicle repair and associated industries
- Worker involvement – Prepare, plan, consult and improve
- Fall from height leads to fines
- Company fined after worker sustains serious burns
- Yorkshire trailer firm fined £100,000 over driver’s death
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Kent construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Surrey construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Thames Valley construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in East Sussex and West Sussex
- Llanelli construction firm fined over worker’s injury
- Gust of wind blows worker off top of shipping container
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on London construction sites
- Fife company fined after lathe crushes worker’s leg
- RR910 – Survival of Legionella pneumophila in metalworking fluids
- Health and Safety law poster – Available in various formats
- Biosafety – Infections at work
- Office for Nuclear Regulation Inspector vacancies
- November 2012 Biocidal Products Directive Annex I Inclusion Decisions
- Nanotechnology – What are nanomaterials?
- Workers exposed to asbestos at Redditch industrial unit
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole
- RR914 – An evaluation of the efficacy of safer sharps devices: Systematic review
- Musculoskeletal Disorders eBulletin – Free subscription
- HSE clampdown to improve construction site safety in West Yorkshire
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Gloucestershire’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Somerset’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on the West’s construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Wiltshire’s construction sites
- Wylfa – 2011 periodic shutdown – consent to start up Reactor 1 following a periodic shutdown
- Cases where local Planning Authorities were minded to grant planning permission against HSE’s advice – New items added
- Berkeley Site – Agreement to proceed with Safety Category 2 or lower Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) retrieval works
- Education case studies – School trips
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Worcestershire construction sites
- Lancashire widow backs construction site clampdown
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Shropshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Cheshire construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Staffordshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Cumbria construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Coventry and Warwickshire construction sites
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Greater Manchester construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites in Birmingham and the Black Country
- Clampdown tackles death and injury on Merseyside construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on construction sites
- Risk management – Online example assessments
- Carriage of Dangerous Goods Prohibition Notices – September/October 2011
- HSE Board agenda 7 December 2011 – Presentation added
- COSHH – How does it affect you in your industry?
- Cheshire manufacturer sentenced over finger loss
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Glasgow construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Derbyshire construction sites
- Property manager fined for asbestos failings
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on County Durham construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Teesside construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Leicestershire and Rutland construction sites
- Automotive component manufacturer fined after worker loses fingers
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Lincolnshire construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Tyneside construction sites
- Gas engineer left pub kitchen at risk
- Q4 2011 LLC reports – Wylfa and Dounreay
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Scottish construction sites
- HSE clampdown to reduce death and injury on Nottinghamshire construction sites
- Film, theatre & broadcasting eBulletin – Sign up for free
- Owner fined for girl’s fall from funfair ride in Birmingham
- Vehicle repair firm in court over Manchester roof death
- Dorset firm fined after worker’s arm was crushed in machinery
- London construction company fined after worker badly injured
- Public Consultation – Proposals to revoke seven Statutory Instruments
- CD237 summary report: Analysis of Responses Received to Statutory Consultation to the proposed Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
- Q4 2011 LLC reports – AWE Aldermaston and Burghfield, Dungeness, Vulcan and Clyde
- Woodworking: Working with machinery – stake pointing on a circular saw
- BSC: International Safety Awards 2012 – London 18 May 2012
- St Helens man sentenced over gas explosion
- Control of Pesticides Regulations (COPR) new approvals – January 2012
- Health & safety for disabled people – Key points to remember
- Construction e-Bulletin – January 2012
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Hinkley Point B and Sizewell B
- Students keep gas safe – CO poisoning: don’t become a statistic
- Crown Censure of HM Prison Service
- RR908 – Vapour cloud formation: Experiments and modelling
- Council in court after respite resident scalded
- Printing industry safety – FAQs
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Sellafield, Calder Hall and Windscale
- Ports – A quick guide to health and safety
- Illegal Gloucestershire gasman lied about credentials
- Landlord prosecuted for putting students at risk
- Office health and safety – Risk assessment tool
- HSE responds to Max Hastings in the Daily Mail over National Trust claims
- Behaviour Based Safety – How to Improve Health & Safety Culture, London 7 March 2012
- Bus company prosecuted after worker is crushed
- Company fined £133,000 after unguarded machinery death (COPFS release)
- Bradford man prosecuted for illegal gas work
- Vehicles at work – Interactive case studies
- Two companies fined after fatality in Brentford
- Unsafe asbestos removal put people at risk
- RR906 – Collision and injury criteria when working with collaborative robots
- ONR vacancy: Chief Operating Officer
- Falls from height – Frequently asked questions
- Workers seriously injured after eight metre fall
- Man’s fingertip sliced off at stoke factory
- Turning concern into action – Construction video
- Q4 2011 Site Stakeholder Group reports for Barrow and Raynesway
- Working Safely with Nanomaterials – Conference 6th July 2012, Edinburgh
- Quarterly statement of nuclear incidents at nuclear installations – October to December 2011
- Nuclear LLC/SSG Q4 reports – Sellafield-Capenhurst, Urenco-Capenhurst, Springfields, Hunterston ‘B’ and Hartlepool
- Publications eBulletin – Subscribe for free
- International fencing firm prosecuted for serious safety failings
- Unregistered gas engineer left householders in danger
- Company fined after worker’s arm is impaled by steel bars
- ONR publishes Quarterly News
- 3M/HSE 2nd Joint Hearing Seminar – Stoke-on-Trent, 3 May 2012
- Stress in your workplace? – Harrogate, 22 February 2012
- HSE Chair speech to Westminster Legal Policy Forum – The future of health and safety regulation: in search of a common sense approach
- L73 – A guide to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
- Lung diseases – Causes of extrinsic allergic alveolitis
- Speech by HSE Chair to Association for Science Education (ASE) Annual Conference
- RR901 – Prospective evaluation of the 1991 NIOSH Lifting Equation
- Fire and explosion – Simple guide to dangerous substances
- Farmworker suffered severe injuries in fall
- Plumber jailed for carrying out illegal gas work
- Safety chief uses high-hazard visit to distinguish real health and safety from the nonsense
- ‘Safer together – moving forward’ – NASHiCS Capital event, Edinburgh 3 April 2012
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