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Jul 17, 2024 | 
moorebarlow.com | Laura White
Navigating through the complexities of a divorce can be daunting, particularly when it comes to disentangling your financial lives. Here, we explore the essential steps and considerations for managing your finances during a divorce, ensuring you are fully prepared to address this challenging aspect with confidence and clarity.
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Jul 4, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Pinsent Masons |Polly Geddes |Hannah Burton
Amid increasing demands for ever-more daring stunts and realistic depictions, coupled with tightening budgets and timescales, there is a risk this may be forgotten. However, the pursuit of entertainment cannot be at the expense of safety. Those who fall below the standards required will face enforcement action, which may include prosecution, reputational damage, a hefty fine and, for individuals found to be at fault, the potential for immediate imprisonment.
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Jun 28, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Pinsent Masons |Mike Robinson FCA
So, although I admit to having been unsuccessful in getting policy change from a government which enjoyed a large majority in Parliament despite waning support in the country, the facts on the ground (or several floors up!) remain stubbornly as they were over a year ago.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Sasha Jackson |Pinsent Masons |Caroline Nokes
One of the key opportunities for AI in the health and safety space concerns risk management. Employers have a duty to mitigate risk and AI-driven tools can assist with this by gathering data on circumstances surrounding incidents and near misses. For instance:A business’ CCTV infrastructure can be linked to computer vision software to process data captured on-site in real time.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Sasha Jackson |Pinsent Masons |Matthew Clark
It’s unfortunate that, perhaps due to our cultural fixation with sunny holidays, we can’t help but view hot weather as a blessing and something to be thankful for. Extreme heatwaves are all too often covered in the media by pictures of people on the beach or enjoying ice creams. But the lived experiences of the heat tell a different story, with significant damage to health and productivity. As the science shows us, extreme heat has important implications for worker safety.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Sasha Jackson |Pinsent Masons |Matthew Clark
The International Labour Organization (ILO) has recently published a global report, Ensuring Safety and Health at Work in a Changing Climate, highlighting critical new data on the impacts of climate change on the safety and health of workers worldwide. Climate change results in a cocktail of hazards, exposing workers to excessive heat, extreme weather, UV radiation, air pollution, an increase in vector-borne diseases and an elevated use of pesticides.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
britsafe.org | Chloë Fiddy |Laura White |Sasha Jackson |Pinsent Masons
The responsibilities of both health and safety and sustainability are intricately linked and intertwined. IEMA has published significant guidance and tools to help professionals working within these areas to understand the wide-reaching impact of extreme weather changes due to climate change.
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Feb 22, 2024 | 
pinsentmasons.com | Laura White
During the year 2022-23, the UK’s workforce suffered from 900,000 cases of work-related stress, depression, or anxiety, 600,000 cases of non-fatal injuries to workers, and 135 work-related fatalities, according to from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). The impact of these incidents is wide-reaching - in addition to the huge physical and mental impact on workers and their families, there is also a financial and reputational impact to businesses.
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Oct 8, 2023 | 
kiis1011.com.au | Byron Cooke |Laura White
We’ve all experienced FOMO, the fear of missing out, and we all know it’s not a great feeling. FOMO was introduced in 2004 to describe the awful feeling that something more exciting is happening that you feel missing out on. The term quickly became well-used around the globe and even earned its place in the Oxford English Dictionary, which states the feeling is ‘often aroused by posts seen on a social media website’.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
britsafe.org | Laura White |Pinsent Masons
There are different types of insolvency proceedings. Although the word insolvency implies the inability of a company to discharge its debts or a lack of funds, it is important to bear in mind that not all companies subject to a formal intervention are in fact insolvent and some may have funds.
