It is often said that health should be treated like safety. ALLYSON HARWOOD agrees, but only in part.

What does health and safety mean in the context of professional sport, and how well is it being managed? JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM investigates.

ANDREW BARRETT reflects on some uncomfortable feedback and develops a useful analogy to better articulate what it means to be an effective health and safety professional.

JAYNE CHATER outlines how taking a coaching approach with your people can help to unlock their true potential (and your own) by obliging you to come up with good questions.

Two years on, MIKE MASSAAR reviews the outcome of his organisation’s simple but momentous decision to completely replace quad bikes with light utility vehicles.

According to an award winner, collaboration is the best path to effective health and safety management and to much else besides. JACKIE BROWN-HAYSOM reports.

We posed these questions to well connected H&S people in the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. • What are the key H&S challenges facing your country? • H&S can go in cycles. What is currently fashionable, and why? • What are the key lessons in recent years that the world can learn from? • Looking ahead over the next 5 years, what broad changes in approach do you anticipate (or would like to see)? (We also take a look at the forthcoming ISO 45001 standard.)

CHRIS PEACE encounters a case study in how not to use a standard operating procedure, raising wider issues of risk communication and the potential for fraud when regulations are strictly defined.

It was only a momentary lapse but it nearly cost him two fingers. PETER BATEMAN spoke to a business owner who was helping out during a period of understaffing.

NICOLE ROSIE sets out her view on the collective and collaborative work required to change the health and safety game.

Suffering from burnout? FIONA MOIR describes the symptoms and suggests it must be tackled at both personal and organisational levels.

There have been significant changes to NZ’s health and safety system in the last year or two. CRAIG SMITH monitors progress and reckons there is no room for complacency.

Many managers opt for mediation when they receive a bullying complaint, but ANDREW SCOTT-HOWMAN argues this is often not the best option.

“Whenever I use a machine guarding incident reported in Safeguard as a training case study, someone invariably shouts out “The operator was obviously an idiot!” and everyone laughs. This “blame the worker” mentality is common. How best to counter it?

A potential lone worker incident on a dairy farm led NERIAH BROUGHTON to re-evaluate her health and safety practice.