India’s technology hub cities like Bengaluru and Hyderabad are increasingly suffering severe flooding, and climate experts say urgent action is now required to reverse extensive construction over natural water-absorbing landscape features to protect people and businesses.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 13 October 2025
Reversing incidents have come into sharp focus in recent months, says HSE with two high profile fines totalling £3.5 million for the death of two workers.
By Belinda Liversedge on 24 October 2025
A manufacturer of rolled aluminium products has been fined £300,000 after a worker was crushed under a 1.5-tonne hydraulic arm at its site in Bridgnorth.
By Belinda Liversedge on 29 October 2025
Around one in seven (14 per cent) UK adults have experienced a long-term health condition because of the virus.
By Belinda Liversedge on 25 March 2025
The Union Government’s announcement that almost 10 million gig workers in India are to be immediately granted basic health insurance and allowed to register online to access social security benefits has been heralded as a “game changer” in extending employment and social security rights to workers in the unorganised sector.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 10 March 2025
A ban on “exploitative” zero-hours contracts will be extended to include agency workers and statutory sick pay rules will be strengthened, as part of a series of amendments to the Employment Rights Bill tabled by the Government on 4 March.
By Kerry Reals on 04 March 2025
It was a special day in Dubai on 11 February as British Safety Council presented its Middle East Conference 2025 – the organisation’s first live, in-person event in this part of the world for several years.
By Jay Ludditt, British Safety Council on 19 February 2025
Network Rail has been fined £3.75 million over the deaths of two workers who were struck by a train while carrying out track maintenance in 2019.
By Kerry Reals on 17 February 2025
More than a dozen Members of Parliament have backed a proposed amendment to the Employment Rights Bill, calling for the Government to take a closer look at how the UK could transition to a four-day working week without a reduction in pay.
By Kerry Reals on 14 February 2025
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) will receive £2 million of funding to help speed up the delivery of large-scale housing developments across the country, the UK Government has announced.
By Kerry Reals on 13 February 2025
Workers’ rights campaigners are hailing a landmark victory for the Indian labour movement after a Samsung Electronics plant in Chennai recently became only the second Samsung Electronics plant in the world to formally recognise a trade union.
By Orchie Bandyopadhyay on 09 February 2025
Funding cuts have placed the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) under “considerable financial pressure” as its remit has simultaneously expanded, but the regulator is committed to ensuring it gets the best value out of the money it has, a Parliamentary Select Committee has heard.
By Kerry Reals on 05 February 2025
Workers on UK festival sites have raised concerns about their safety and working conditions, pointing to long hours and extreme heat, in a survey carried out by the Bectu union.
By Kerry Reals on 03 February 2025
