Blogs which cover Health and Safety Questions: Dealing with Bonkers Conkers
We have been covering the questions around “bonkers conkers” stories on this blog, here and here .
I put out a plea for some Health and Safety blogs to emerge. I have found a few options, but the coverage is currently woefully thin. Here are those I have found.
- John’s Labour blog is a Trade Union blog which touches on some Health and Safety questions, among a wide range of content.
- Working Safe is purely about Health and Safety, but is not updated that regularly, and is quite new. Roughly 30 posts since April. Promising.
- Abbey health and Safety is a company which has a blog concerned with construction. They are IOSH members. Even never (5 postings), but promising.
- Expert HR provides some coverage from a Personnel viewpoint (including an article about silly season stories).
- HSE News is a news feed from the Health and Safety Executive. There is an RSS Feed.
- You can create your own newswire for Bonkers Conkers stories at Technorati, or turn it into an RSS Feed.
- And finally, the TUC has a blog (this is the Technorati page).
And … er … that’s it.
Apart from the IOSH President.
Sorry.
[Update 15/7/2008]
- Safetynut Blog is a blog run by Veritas Consulting. The intention is to provide a no nonsense resource for health and safety professionals.
Wrapping Up
So - we need some Health and Safety Bloggers. Here are two suggestions:
A Health and Safety blogger like NHS Blog Doctor (perhaps less cynical) - about daily work.
A rebuttal blog focusing totally on rebutting Bonkers Conkers stories within the same news cycle with accurate information - i.e., before they grow legs. I think that means within 2 hours, and it should be run from the IOSH Press Office.
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On behalf of workingsafe.blogspot.com, many thanks for mentioning us.
We will try to work harder so we can move from “promising” to “must read” ; )
Best Regards
Juan
Thanks for the comment.
Matt
I agree, more H&S blogs and not about passing easy exams and posting example questions and answers - where are the free thinking safety pros gone? on the other hand if the HSE bring out an ACOP stating all safety pros should have a blog site, then there should be a few more!
>where are the free thinking safety pros gone?
At least one of them has been writing articles for me.
I’m trying to wake some of other up.
By and large I think they have been somewhat cocooned.
i have just landed on this Blog and found the posts very interesting , hopefully i will post some useful comments but i promise nothing… keep up the good work. bye for now
@safety consultant: You’re welcome.
I did a Health and Safety month in summer 2007.
I’m planning another in August 2008.
Would you care to guest post?
(We do our recruitment quickly here).
Rgds. Matt
it would be a pleasure to guest post just let me know what you would like me to do and when
look forward to hearing from you.
Hi Matt, i would like to take this opportunity to add my blog to this arena Safetynut Blog the intention is to provide a no nonsense resource for health and safety professionals.
I subscribe to a H&S newsletter it has some pretty good articles every month. Provided by a training company but focuses on H&S news.
If you want to subscribe a pop up comes up on their homepage