British Safety Council

British Safety Council announced today (Wednesday) it has appointed three new Trustees to its Board; Sachit Rajan, Sarah Adamson, and Richard Daniels. Welcoming the appointment of the three new Board members, Peter McGettrick, Chairman of British Safety Council, said: “I am delighted to welcome these new Trustees to the Board of British Safety Council.

For most of human history, work has been about survival. Earning just enough. Getting through the day. Meeting demands that were rarely within your control. That hasn't changed for everyone. But something is shifting. In the wake of a pandemic that forced the world to stop and reconsider almost everything, people are asking more of work — not in an entitled way, but in a deeply human one. They want work that sustains them, not just work that occupies them.

The PFAS problem Widespread use of PFAS began in the 1950s when they started being manufactured on a large scale. Since then, these manufactured chemicals have become widely used in society across a range of industries and in everyday products, including food packaging and waterproof clothing as well as pesticides and firefighting foams.

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Earlier this year (13 January) the OEP published its fourth statutory report on government’s progress delivering its EIP covering the 12 months up to the end of March 2025. Our headline is disappointingly familiar. Our latest EIP progress report shows how government remains largely off track to meet its environmental targets and obligations.

Health and safety has always evolved in response to risk. Today, that risk landscape is inseparable from sustainability. Climate change, resource scarcity, biodiversity loss, supply chain disruption and regulatory reform are no longer peripheral concerns. They are shaping operational resilience, governance expectations and professional accountability. How prepared is the health and safety profession to respond?

Water is essential for staff health and wellbeing, business operations, development, and growth, but demand, population growth, and climate change mean many areas are experiencing water shortages. 88 per cent of businesses are located in areas projected to have a supply deficit by 2030. Demand management and water efficiency by businesses are key to provide headroom in local supplies and ensure enough is available for communities, the environment, and the economy to thrive.

The infrastructure sector is one of the most complex and high‑risk industries in the UK. From operating heavy machinery to working in confined spaces, the potential for accidents is ever‑present. At Amey, we sit at the heart of this complexity, delivering full life‑cycle engineering, operations and decarbonisation solutions across sectors, and with that comes a clear responsibility to keep our people safe. But the industry has evolved.

Safety and sustainability are both increasingly key, and often inseparable, components of modern corporate strategy, particularly when considering ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) priorities. As a result, the two functions are frequently at the forefront of modern and progressive business agendas.

The importance of this question becomes clearer when we consider the global scale of harm associated with poor workplace safety and health. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO), around 2.9 million people die each year from work-related incidents and hundreds of millions more suffer non-fatal injuries and illnesses. The economic cost of these failures is estimated to be close to 4% of global GDP.