When something goes wrong the instinct is to find out who did it. It feels like progress and it closes the matter quickly. It also teaches you nothing.

COSHH has a reputation for generating paper, and done badly it earns it. It's also one of the areas the HSE looks at most closely.

Every business has risk assessments. Far fewer have ones anybody reads. A risk assessment is meant to be a working tool, not a document you file.

Most businesses have a folder holding the policy, some assessments and whatever the last consultant left behind. It fills a shelf. It doesn't change the floor.

Customers increasingly want proof you take your impact seriously, and that pressure usually ends in a question about ISO 14001. Here's what it actually covers.

For most manufacturers ISO 9001 arrives as a customer requirement rather than a choice. A tender asks, and suddenly you need to know what it takes.

Someone's probably told you that you need a competent person. It sounds like jargon, but it's straight from the law and getting it wrong leaves you exposed.