Spain’s occupational safety institute INSST published a literature review on risks that disproportionately affect female construction workers, ranging from poorly fitting PPE to sexual harassment.
From September 2026, France’s labour inspectorate is carrying out workplace inspections of mobile work equipment and lifting equipment, focusing on inspections, driver training and the separation of vehicles and pedestrians.
A maintenance engineer suffered life-changing injuries when his arm became trapped in an unguarded conveyor belt. The UK’s HSE fined the company £160,000.
Britain’s HSE reports a sharp rise in convictions against unregistered gas engineers, warning households of life-threatening risks from illegally carried out gas work.
France’s INRS has once again highlighted employers’ responsibility in preventing workplace-related suicide. For EHS professionals, this is an opportunity to review their own policies on psychosocial risks.
Without a comprehensive OSHA standard for indoor air quality, U.S. employers must build their own structure. A recent industry publication outlines how ASHRAE standards and a four-tier control model can provide that framework.
The French agency Anact has launched a free online game that helps employees and managers learn to analyse and improve workplace situations. The game, “Cap sur les conditions de travail”, uses an investigative format to help participants uncover concrete problem areas.
A French instruction dated 3 August 2026 requires 226 riverbed quarries to follow a standardized asbestos testing protocol, up from 16 previously. Sixty sites are prioritized, with a deadline of August 2027.
France’s public health and safety agency Anses is finalizing research into the link between skin cancer and occupational UV exposure, aiming to secure recognition of a new occupational disease. This puts France behind neighbouring countries such as Germany, Switzerland and Belgium.
France studied Spain’s heat-at-work policy this week during a visit by Minister Farandou to Madrid — automatic adjustment of working hours, climate leave and stop-work authority for prevention officers stand out as key differences with France.
