Hello and welcome to

Connect

Hello and welcome to the first Connect of 2010.

No doubt many of you will have made your New Year resolutions by now. Some of you may have already broken them!

We’d like to hear from you about what promises you’d make to champion health and safety this year – we’re using Twitter to collect promises from both members and stakeholders. So if you have something to contribute, please let us know by logging onto IOSH’s Twitter page by Sunday 10 January. You can hear what IOSH President John Holden promises to do in 2010 on the IOSHchannel.

In this issue of Connect, we look at a common type of fatal accident in UK workplaces – working at height. We ask what’s classed as ‘working from height’ and how working at height can be avoided or even eliminated.

The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 places a requirement to include evacuation plans for people with disabilities in a fire safety risk assessment. Connect looks at what the key regulations and standards are, and what organisations need to do to develop a Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan.

As well as features, Connect carries all the latest news from the profession as well as important CPD and IPD dates.

Thanks for reading and best wishes for 2010.

Shaun Gibbons
e-Editor, IOSH