Loft hatches are often overlooked during routine maintenance, yet they present real and foreseeable safety risks. Poorly maintained hatches can lead to falls from height, manual handling injuries, and damage to property when staff or contractors require access for inspections, repairs, alarms, insulation, or leak tracing. For housing associations and third sector landlords, safe loft access is a legal duty. Why this matters Accessing a loft involves working at height. If the hatch,...

10th October 2025 This World Mental Health Day, the theme "Access to Services: Mental Health in Catastrophes and Emergencies"  highlights...

Every year, too many people in Great Britain don’t make it home from work. The latest figures from the Health and Safety Executive show that 124 workers died in work-related incidents in 2024/25 a sobering reminder that no one should ever lose their life simply for doing their job. While this number is lower than it was twenty years ago (223 deaths in 2004/05 and 495 in 1981), it is still 124 too many. But what is often less visible are the lives claimed by work-related diseases, illnesses...