If your organisation currently runs training accredited by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) then you will be interested to hear about planned changes to its most popular IOSH Managing Safely course that are expected to come on stream soon. As a leading licensed IOSH training provider, this is our most popular health and safety certificate course taught in classroom, blended and eLearning formats. Following a period of relative stability where the course hadn’t changed for a number of years, this year has already s... Continue reading

Founder and Managing Director David Sharp celebrates International Workplace’s coming of age at a drinks reception last week Training and consulting specialists International Workplace is celebrating a special anniversary today, 21 years after it was founded on 16 November 1995. From humble roots in a bedroom – and then a garage – the company has grown to provide accredited health and safety training solutions in health and safety, environmental management, human resources, and leadership and management, delivered in the UK and internat... Continue reading

Employers are being warned that they must offer better support to the growing number of people with cancer in the workplace, following new research released by Macmillan Cancer Support and YouGov, which reveals an estimated 20,000 people diagnosed with cancer each year in the UK will face discrimination in their workplace. Negative experiences cited by people who have returned to work include being made redundant as a result of their diagnosis, being made to feel guilty for having to take time off for medical appointments, and feeling they hav... Continue reading

An Employment Tribunal has confirmed that female store workers can use male distribution depot workers as comparators in their equal pay claims. This landmark ruling in the UK's largest private sector equal pay claim has cleared the way for over 7,000 claims to proceed, the total value of which has been estimated at over £100m. The facts A group of primarily female employees working in ASDA's supermarkets have sought to bring equal pay claims, arguing that their work is of equal value to the work carried out by their male colleagues in the s... Continue reading

The makers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens have been sentenced after failing to protect the actors and workers while on set during filming at Pinewood Studio, Slough, Buckinghamshire. Harrison Ford suffered a broken leg and deep lacerations when he was knocked off his feet and pinned to the floor of the Millennium Falcon set, as a prop door closed on him. HSE’s investigation found that there was no automatic emergency cut off, to protect those on set, instead relying on the reactions of the prop operator(s) to bring the door to a stop. Ayle... Continue reading