Category Archives: Health & Safety

Fair Employment Enforcement Board to be established

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Usefully Employed

There’s something comforting and old-fashioned about the name. The establishment of the Board, together with the introduction of a single telephone helpline to report sharp practice by employers, has been announced in this BERR press release. A summary of the … Continue reading →

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Mobile Madness

Posted on December 28, 2007 by Usefully Employed

Road safety campaigners dream of giving mobile phone use and speeding the same stigma that attaches to drink driving. If someone were to boast that they routinely drank four pints* then drove home they would neither win friends nor influence … Continue reading →

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Timber!

Posted on December 6, 2007 by Usefully Employed

This article is the stupidest thing I’ve ever read. Not the law – although it’s easy to have doubts when the National Trust are prosecuted for letting one of their six million trees fall down – it’s the terrible journalism. … Continue reading →

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