Health, safety and well-being blog - Industry commentary and news

In this blog, Kate Field, global head of health, safety and well-being at the British Standards Institute (BSI), provides practical advice on preventing work-related ill health or injury with an occupational health and safety (OHS) management system.

In this blog, BSI look at why some organisations were much better prepared than others to cope with its impact.

In this blog, Kate Field, Global Head – Health, Safety and Well-being, BSI, looks at how – and why – two companies on opposite sides of the world have committed to the psychological health and safety of their people.

In this top-tips blog, Scott Maddison, Health and Safety Specialist at BSI, gives practical insight into how to support your employees using ISO 45003’s proactive steps.

Businesses that want to safeguard the well-being of their employees can’t afford to take a ‘tick box’ approach. They have to implement a proper strategy - and continually maintain it.

Work-related causes of mental ill health are on the rise. Yet if employers implement best practice, their employees will be significantly healthier and happier.

In an interview with Martin Townsend, we look at social value, what it means and how it is evolving, as companies look at a more rounded view of sustainability and the role that they play in society.

Kate Field, Global Head Health, Safety and Well-being at BSI provides her insight on remote working.

In this interview, Xavier Alcaraz, National Practice Director, Health and Safety, EH3S Consulting, BSI, describes real businesses that have benefitted from their successful creation of health, safety and well-being (HSW) policies that engage all their people.

In this interview, Matthew Scott, Client Manager at BSI, explains why you should strive to deliver inclusive services. He considers the challenges involved and explores potential solutions for your organization.

In this, the fourth episode of our series of in-depth psychological well-being insights, three BSI experts explain these initiatives in more depth and explore ideas that you may consider for your organization

Sally Swingewood, Lead Standards Development Manager at BSI, explains what consultation and participation mean, why they are is so important, and how you can ensure they take place in your organization.

In the interview, Gary highlights the latest trends in employee attitudes including the idea that reward is not simply financial.

An in-depth interview with Kate Field, Global Head Health, Safety and Well-being, highlights the key steps that offer organizations enormous opportunities to achieve significant cultural change, drive long-term resilience and avoid merely ticking corporate social responsibility boxes.

People’s psychological health and well-being in the workplace is firmly on the workplace agenda. BSI’s Global Head, Health, Safety and Well-being, Kate Field (CMIOSH) explains why.

BSI’s new Prioritizing People Model© provides a best practice framework for organizations to plot their resilience journey from workplace welfare to innovation. The model’s creator Kate Field (CMIOSH), BSI’s Global Head, Health, Safety and Well-being, maps the milestones.

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a worldwide wake-up call, reminding us of the human aspect of what it means to be a thriving employee. Here BSI’s Global Head, Health, Safety and Well-being Kate Field (CMIOSH) makes the case for a culture of care to be preserved.

Kate Field (CMIOSH), BSI’s Global Head, Health, Safety and Well-being, reflects on whether the culture of care driven by the global pandemic can translate to long-term trust between worker and employer.

Why has it taken a global pandemic to create a culture of care in the workplace, when there has clearly been a need for it for decades?

Kate Field (CMIOSH), BSI’s Global Head, Health, Safety and Well-being, explores the link between well-being in the workplace and the need for a more profound cultural shift.

BS 9518:2021 is a new standard recommending alarm handling procedures to alarm receiving centres. However, at the same time, this new code of practice revises a previous standard. This blog post explains this paradox and why it’s arisen. 

BS 8418 was originally conceived as the “go-to” standard for VSS companies, where they’d get all they needed to design, install and operate detection-activated VSS. Now in its fifth edition, the latest revisions have brought the standard closer to that vision. This blog post looks at the changes and the thinking behind them.   

We’ve now updated the influential British Standard on the design of intruder and hold-up alarm systems. This blog post recounts what’s in the standard, why it matters and what’s new about the 2021 version.