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The workplace safety community is venturing online quickly – sharing news, views, videos, photos, tweets, and more from around the world.
Here are five blogs (from Melbourne, Arizona, Birmingham, London, and Massachusetts) that cover workplace health and safety issues in their jurisdictions and in general. Some evaluate regulatory changes (in great detail) and all are updated at least twice a week
Subscribe with Google Reader (or whatever you use for reading blogs) and stay on top of workplace safety news. See how it compares with your region and maybe you will have some ideas to share in the comment section. Remember that, with few exceptions, bloggers (including me) love getting comments.
Here are the five blogs to check out:
SafetyAtWorkBlog
Edited by Kevin Jones, this daily blog is based in Melbourne, Australia. Kevin is an OHS consultant and freelance writer who writes much of the content, along with guest contributors. He is @SafetyOZ on Twitter.
What’s new at HSE?
The Health and Safety Executive of Great Britain is “the national independent watchdog for work-related health, safety and illness.”
“We are an independent regulator and act in the public interest to reduce work-related death and serious injury across Great Britain’s workplaces,” reads the blog’s About section. The HSE website has a large selection of resources in support of injury prevention.
Latest Construction Health and Safety News
Construction incidents are detailed in this blog updated several times per day by Philip Poynter in Birmingham, England. PP Construction Safety is an OHS information and consultancy service. He’s @PPConstruction on Twitter.
Workers Comp Insider
This blog covers workers’ compensation, risk management, business insurance, workplace health & safety, occupational medicine, injured workers, insurance webtools & technology and related topics. It’s written by Lynch Ryan, a consulting firm in Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA.
The Safety Blog
Training tips, news, and how-to’s for different safety topic are presented in this blog created by Safety Services Company, based in Yuma, Arizona, USA.
Care to recommend any others?
Great list, Susan. And here’s another one for you: SafetyXChange.org, an international safety blog/community that’s been around for more than 5 years. We’ve got safety professional contributors and members from around the world who freely share their expertise, insight and tools. There are thousands of articles in the archives, covering everything from compliance to best practices. Care to contribute an article?
I suggest an Italian website (only in Italian) with all italian Health and Safety related news.
http://www.berniericonsulting.com/newsletter
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Thank you for this.
Thanks for the listing Susan.
This is a great list of blogs Susan. I always like to read workplace safety news from other regions, especially from North American countries. It’s so good to have a list of blogs which provides up-to-date information on a regular basis. Thank you so much.
Thanks! Please do let me know if you have any suggestions for more to include next time. I’ll do a follow-up soon.
I am very thankful to have this related blog where we can express our feelings.
Hi Susan,
Great list of blogs on health and safety. Look forward to seeing more blogs from you.
Thank you very much Chris!
I look forward to checking out this list you’ve put together. Always looking for good content. With all the HS stories you’ve heard in your time with WorkSafeBC, I’d be interested in reading those as well.
Great piece! As somebody who is new to health and safety I found this to be quite an insightful list.
Thank you. Glad it’s helpful!