Towards harmonized European Safety Card Training

Safety regulation: The lessons of workplace safety rule management for managing the regulatory burden

There is a strong political consensus in a number of countries that occupational safety and health regulation is stifling industrial innovation and development and is feeding a culture of damaging risk aversion and petty bureaucracy. In a number of countries this has led to proposals to repeal regulations and reduce the regulatory burden. The...

Certification of safety professionals: Emerging trends of internationalisation

Professionalisation of safety began at a national level with the formation of national associations of safety staff working in industry and of government inspectors. It took its first steps towards internation-al harmonisation with attempts in the 1970s in Western Europe to arrive at agreement on the content of university level courses. The...