This report examines the safety and health issues associated with the use of the internet and internet related technologies in and by industry. There is a great deal of pressure for an organisation to take up the internet, outside pressure from the customers and pressure from within. The technology to allow connection of manufacturing and control systems to the internet is easily available, but...

BACKGROUND The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) indicator tool is one of the most commonly used tools for assessing the risk of work-related stress. Few studies, however, have investigated whether and how its scales are related to psychological distress or other work-related health outcomes. AIMS To investigate the relationship between the HSE indicator tool, psychological distress, as measu...

BACKGROUND The Health & Safety Executive Management Standards Indicator Tool (HSE-MS IT) is a questionnaire commonly used to assess work-related stress risks at an organizational level. A critical factor in determining whether this instrument is actually useful is that higher levels of stress risk in the work-design domains should predict higher levels of stress and stress-related outcomes in w...

Introduction The tourism industry is highly vulnerable to Health, Safety, and Environmental Sanitation (HSE) threats. The Caribbean is the most tourism dependent region in the world, with over 54.2 million stayover and cruise ship arrivals in 2015, generating revenues of $US29.6 billion and contributing to 15% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 2,255,000 jobs [1]. Tourists and staff are at...

W Black Blacksafe Consulting This report is the second of 3 parts presenting the results of an HSE-sponsored research project. The overall purpose is to create a scheme for learning from incidents that involve electrical, electronic or programmable electronic (E/E/PE) systems. Part 1 reviews existing learning processes and causal analysis techniques, examines industry practice and makes recomme...

Psychological performance tests have been used since the mid-1960s in occupational and environmental health toxicology. The interpretation of significantly different test scores in neurobehavioural studies is not straightforward in the regulation of chemicals. This paper sets out some issues which emerged from discussions at an international workshop, organised by the United Kingdom Health and ...