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15 March 2018

Local organisations joined 10 major employers in pledging to working towards reducing occupational ill health and disease in their organisation at yesterday’s Workplace Health Conference. A packed Titanic Suite listened to a variety of eminent..

14 March 2018

The Workplace Health Leadership Group NI (WHLGNI)  held its inaugural conference, ‘Occupational Health, Hygiene and Wellbeing’ at the Titanic, Belfast yesterday. The conference, which included a comprehensive programme of policy mak..

13 March 2018

Pdf versions of the presentations can be downloaded at the link below. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS   ..

20 February 2018

Industrial Deafness Claims An estimated 80,000 industrial deafness claims were filed in 2014 — causing some insurers to label the injury as the ‘new whiplash’. As an owner or manager of an engineering, construction or manufacturing..

11 February 2018

The Guardian has reported on Safety breaches at UK labs that handle harmful bacteria, viruses and fungi have spread infections to staff and exposed others to potentially lethal diseases. Read their article. ..

11 January 2018

Farming Life have reported that HSENI are investigating an incident on a Dromara farm (06/01) in which a farmer is believed to have been gored by a bull. Read more at: https://www.farminglife.com/farming-news/dromara-farmer-gored-by-bull-1-8318834 ..

9 January 2018

The first quarter of 2018 will see a packed schedule of activity on many fronts and will have something for all members/readers. ..

12 December 2017

The Workplace Health Leadership Group NI (WHLGNI) was formed on 10th August 2016 when a group of committed stakeholders from across industry and government came together to ensure that effective occupational health management is given the priority in..

26 November 2017

A new poster has been produced to encourage your employees to nominate their colleagues for the Award. You can download the poster (a3 size) below. It has space for you to put your name and contact number. Entries for the 2018 Award must be submitt..

15 November 2017

The Regulations came into operation on 31 October 2017 and amend regulation 3(2) of the Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 to remove the requirement for HSENI to approve the training and qualifications of appointed firs..

7 November 2017

A County Tyrone farmer was fined last month at Dungannon Crown Court after an incident involving a 14 year old casual employee. Mr Charles Elkin, a farmer, of Mullagharn Road, Omagh, pleaded guilty of failing to maintain safe conditions on his farm ..

31 October 2017

The UK is facing a mental health challenge at work that is much larger than we had thought is the outcome reported by the recent Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers. Not only is there a big human cost of poor mental health at work..