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New BOHS Course - Communicating Risk

Published: 07/12/2010

How to get your message across to those who need to hear it

BOHS gives cautious welcome to Occupational Safety Consultants Register

Published: 21/10/2010

As one of the professional bodies involved in the establishment of the Occupational Safety Consultants Register [OSCR], the British Occupational Hygiene Society [BOHS] is wholly supportive of the aim behind the scheme to raise the standard of advice being given by consultants to employers.

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BOHS’s response to Lord Young’s Report on Health and Safety

Published: 18/10/2010

We welcome Lord Young’s Report and support much of its tone and many of its recommendations. In particular, we are pleased that Lord Young has recognised that media focus has given undue attention to safety issues that are of trivial risk and that many of these appear to be related to public safety and arise from poor standards of competence and/or actions focused on perceived risk of legal action rather than real risk to health or safety.

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Health and Safety Advisors move into Occupational Hygiene with help from the BOHS Postgraduate Bursary Award

Published: 13/10/2010

We are delighted to announce the latest beneficiaries of our postgraduate bursary programme and extend congratulations to the two successful candidates: Emma Forbes, studying for an MSc in Occupational Hygiene at the University of Greenwich, and Paul Ramsden, studying for an MSc in Occupational Health at the University of Birmingham. This brings to 18 the total number of bursaries, each covering one year's tuition fee, that have been awarded by BOHS since the launch of the scheme, all to students who would otherwise have had to fund themselves entirely.

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BOHS announces the closure of ABICS

Published: 06/10/2010

It is with deep regret that the British Occupational Hygiene Society [BOHS] announces the closure of the Asbestos Building Inspectors Certification Scheme [ABICS].

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Response to Lord Young Review of Health and Safety

Published: 21/07/2010

BOHS welcomed the opportunity to consider and comment upon Lord Young’s governmental review of 'health and safety and the compensation culture' and agrees that this issue is one of growing significance in the public arena which has led to significant loss of confidence in the application of health and safety and its practitioners and regulators. Our response can be read in full here. In summary, we expressed concerns about the balanced application of existing regulations, risk reduction practices and subsequent issue management, and then set out key points on the need to rebalance and refocus around areas representing the highest risk to health and safety, and recommendations for how these might be achieved in practice.

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Presentations from Occupational Hygiene 2010 Annual Conference - now available

Published: 21/06/2010

You can now download the presentations from this year's Annual Conference in Harrogate.

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New OHLearning.com Website hosting international training modules and materials - now live

Published: 21/06/2010

The Occupational Hygiene Training Association (OHTA), a new organisation working under the guidance of the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA)

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BOHS stresses importance of competence standards in support of new HSE Strategy

Published: 10/05/2010

We fully support HSE's newly published Strategy and the underlying principles of good health and safety practice which it encompasses. In particular, we welcome the recognition of the need for action to address the continuing toll of ill-health caused by unsatisfactory conditions in the workplace.

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Inhaled Particles X proceedings published

Published: 10/05/2010

The proceedings from Inhaled Particles X conference have now been published by the Journal of Physics: Conference Series. This is an on-line, open-access journal and all articles are permanently available online without charge immediately after publication.

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