National Falls Awareness Day

Yes folks, it's National Falls Awareness Day today. It is led by Help the Aged in parnership with other organisations and is aimed at raising awareness about falls and promoting information on staying fit, healthy and independent in later life.

Further information can be found on the Help the Aged website.

Is your organisation involved in promoting National Falls Awareness Day? Tell me.

HSW readership survey

As part of our continued efforts to ensure that HSW magazine meets your information needs, we are inviting subscribers of the magazine to take part in our 2008 Readership Survey.

If you are a subscriber and would like the opportunity to influence the content of HSW in future issues, complete our survey.

We want your opinions!

Here at HealthandSafetyProfessional.co.uk we always listen to our readers - and now we have given you the opportunity to tell us what you think about all things health and safety with our new weekly opinion polls.

This week, we are asking if you think it is worthwhile for the HSE to pursue prosecutions of firms in liquidation where there is evidence of serious safety breaches. The question was borne out of the recent prosecution of North West Aerosols, which was fined a measly £2 for the death of a worker because the company's directors put the firm into voluntary liquidation four months after the incident.

Tell us what you think by visiting http://www.healthandsafetyprofessional.co.uk/