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142 Workers Were Killed at Work in Great Britain in 2020/21

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Provisional data released by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) shows that a total of 142 workers were killed at work in Great Britain in 2020/21, an increase of 29 from the previous year, though the number of deaths in 2019/20 (113) was low compared to recent years.

In statistical terms, the number of fatalities has remained broadly level in recent years – the average annual number of workers killed at work over the five years 2016/17-2020/21 is 136. The fatality numbers released by HSE relate to workplace incidents. They do not include deaths arising from occupational exposure to disease, including Covid-19.

Over the past 20 years there has been a long-term reduction in the number of workplace fatalities, demonstrating that Great Britain is one of the safest places to work in the world.

“Whilst the working world in which we now live has created new health challenges for workers … Read more...

The Deep End: Four Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Risk It When It Comes to Corporate Compliance

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Everyone has a different risk tolerance. For example, I recently discovered that my risk tolerance for pool access is higher then previously thought.

It took three hours to get each kid ready for the pool, one hour of which was spent agonizing over an outfit. There were last minute diaper changes, food requests and preparatory complications. Once we finally made it to the pool, nature intervened, and one kid had to return home. In the meantime, it was closing time for the pool and rather than have her miss pool time, I decided I was going into the pool with her even though it was against pool rules.

The lifeguard confronted me, and I challenged him to fine me for that extra little bit of pool time. He admitted he had no authority to do that, but he said he could suspend me instead. In the end nothing happened, but … Read more...

Mining Pain Points and Solutions: How Technology Makes the Difference

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Approximately 230,000 miners work across 11,500 metal/nonmetal mines in the U.S., while 64,000 work in the nation’s 1,000 coal mines. The mining sector employs 3.7 million+ workers worldwide.

In 2020, mining-related deaths declined and the mining industry achieved its highest compliance with U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration health standards, which protect the long-term health and safety of miners. The year 2020 saw all-time-low average concentrations of respirable dust and respirable quartz in underground coal mines, as well as exposure to dust and quartz for miners at highest risk of overexposure to respirable dust.

That said, the agency issued thousands of citations in 2020 for violations of the Mine Safety and Health Act, and the fines for all of those citations add up to millions of dollars. And despite the good news of fewer fatal injuries and fewer citations, miners continue to die and be seriously injured at work.

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Are You Ready to Build a Principle-Based Safety Culture?

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Is worker safety and health the foundation upon which everything else at your organization is built?

Empowering a workforce to achieve and sustain safety performance success begins with one critical question: Is safety a core value at your organization? Or, better yet, is it the organization’s principal value?

Is worker safety and health the foundation upon which everything else is built? It’s easy to test, to see and to feel when you achieve it.

The benefits of creating a principle-based safety culture are many. You feel it because it is real, it’s the norm, it’s the way things are done around here. You know a company has achieved it when:

  • You read it in things such as vision and mission statements.
  • The senior leadership team is engaged and actively demonstrating their value.
  • You see plant managers and their direct teams on the manufacturing floor, engaging with and learning from the
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Delivering Business Value by Speeding Up the Software Solution Selection Journey

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In the past, when organizations would consider making large infrastructural or software investments, the process involved an extensive research process followed by continuous back and forth between the parties who were proposing the investment and the decision-makers. In fact, the buying process could take anywhere from months to years.

But those were different times.

With the pace of business today and the various business models in market, decisions can be made in a fraction of the time.


The Evolution of the Software Procurement Process in the B2B Space


Due to the material advancements in software in the past decade or so, there have been key changes to the “software buying experience” in the corporate world. They can be summarized as follows:

  • The introduction of the SaaS (software-as-a-service) model now allows potential buyers to experience free trials, which lessens the guesswork and risk of the final decision.
  • The accelerated
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Ask Enhesa Vol. 18 Intelex Special draft

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Featuring contributions from Tjeerd Hendel-Blackford and Shannon Summers Enhesa; Kristen Duda and Jessica Sarnowski, Intelex  

Why do Intelex and Enhesa partner with each other? 

Enhesa and Intelex started working together back in 2013 as there were clear mutual benefits of partnering. On the one hand, Intelex is a market leading EHSQ software platform and enables clients to manage their EHS program in one central platform, including compliance with EHS laws. On the other hand, Enhesa is the global market leader in providing analysis of global EHS laws and regulations, packaged as “regulatory content.” This means there is no overlap in what both companies provide, but a lot of mutual benefits in working together to serve our mutual clients’ end goals – which is ultimately to look after the safety of their employees and the natural environment in which they operate. 

Another way to look at it is by taking the analogy of a CD or Cassette player (remember those?). In this example, Intelex … Read more...

Intelex Named a Leader in the Gartner 2014 Magic Quadrant for Environmental, Health and Safety Management Systems

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I don’t know if you’ve heard by now, but Intelex was positioned as the EHS vendor with the greatest ability to execute in the marketplace in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Management Systems! This is Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant focused on EHS, which shows the progress and growth of the EHS industry.

The Magic Quadrant analyzes key EHS management system providers worldwide and positions them based on their “ability to execute” and “completeness of vision”. Vendors are placed into one of four quadrants as “leaders”, “challengers”, “visionaries” or “niche players”. Named both a Leader and EHS vendor with the highest ability to execute, we believe that our configurable solution and high customer satisfaction ratings earned us this position in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

According to Gartner, Leaders “deliver a full suite of EH&S functionality, and represent some of the largest, fastest-growing vendors in the market.” Intelex clients … Read more...