Health, Safety & Wellbeing

Denise Chevin explores the children’s hospital that is revisiting what we consider to be a healing environment.

EMCOR UK has received the Health & Safety Award at the Considerate Constructors Gala Awards. Notably this award was handpicked by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Taking the view that built environment professionals should help to improve society, Wienerberger UK & Ireland has partnered with Emmaus UK.

The Water Hygiene Centre says an independent water safety audit is a way to establish everything is in good working order and should not be feared.

Stuart Fairlie, Managing Director of Elmhurst Energy, says landlords have a responsibility for their tenants’ wellbeing

Use, handling, storage and charging of lithium-ion batteries is an everyday occurrence. Socotec considers how this can be managed safely.

Health and safety workloads have never been more demanding – and don’t facilities managers just know it.

Rope access specialists from CAN, an RSK company, have been maintaining the Warner Stand roof of Lord’s Cricket Ground, which is suspended from a height of 20m.

Zehnder Group and CIBSE find a worryingly low understanding of overheating regulations and mitigation measures among building service engineers – so what needs to be done?

BSIF CEO Alan Murray discusses how the Registered Safety Supplier Scheme can help those responsible for buying PPE and safety equipment

Two companies have been fined after a 16-year-old worker was exposed to asbestos.

Alex Minett, Head of Global New Markets at Veriforce CHAS, considers what lessons the UK can learn from how the US approaches the issue of PPE inclusivity.

The climate crisis is causing temperatures to rise exponentially, so we’re all going to need to get better at living with the heat.

Citizen testing of rivers across Britain has found 75% are polluted from water companies and agricultural runoff.

Broadnook Garden Village – Leicestershire’s newest purpose-built community – has a range of initiatives to improve wellbeing and the standard of living, including more than 50% open green spaces, almost 12 hectares of land designated to woodland planting, 500 trees planted with thousands more planned, car-free pedestrianised zones and planned allotment spaces.

Employers need to make a habit of addressing mental health as stress, depression or anxiety now account for almost half of all cases of work-related ill health

Vanessa Champion, Editor and Founder of the Journal of Biophilic Design, discusses why a connection to nature could be the answer to many of the problems in the built environment

Insurer QBE surveyed 362 UK construction workers about their mental health at work. The results indicate that even with the increased risk of injury due to poor mental health, they are likely to continue to work.

Zentia says inspiring young minds needs effective acoustics in all learning environments, but especially for SEN schools.

Ventilation and mould are still putting properties and homeowners at serious risk – enough is enough, says the Property Care Association (PCA).