Compliance

A white paper published by the Sustainable Facilities Management Index (SFMI) provides FM organisations with a framework that can help propel them to leading sustainability status.

Version 2 of BSI’s Safe Working Guidelines is published today to help organisations to protect workers from the continuing coronavirus risks, mitigate outbreaks and build long-term resilience.

Amey has teamed up with social enterprise Ethical Stationery and a group of South London charities in Croydon to package and distribute face coverings to its 16,000 UK employees, including more than 10,000 key workers.

Food service business Compass Group UK & Ireland has signed up to the Race at Work Charter in partnership with Business in the Community (BITC).

Workers keen for PPE as part of workplace return

Employers plan ‘staggered’ workplace return

Six in 10 engineering services businesses (63 per cent) are having “sustained difficulty” in obtaining suitable face masks for use on site, says the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA).

The industry needs a new hygiene standard, argues Mike Boxall.

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has criticised the government’s proposed plan set out in the Fire Safety Bill to fund just 12 new fire inspectors to inspect and enforce fire safety in more than two million homes in England after the Grenfell tragedy.

Get refrigeration wrong and you not only risk large lawsuits but can also endanger your colleagues’ lives, says Jason Webb

The principal designer role is still causing confusion five years on from its introduction, says Stephen Bottom

Gender, ethnicity, and the nature of the job of a security officer increase the risks that the profession has in exposure to the coronavirus, suggests new analysis.