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EDITOR’S VOICE Hello and welcome to the May issue of Tomorrow’s Health & Safety.


As I write this (10 May), we have just begun Mental Health Awareness Week Week (10 - 16 May). According to Mind, the UK mental health charity, one in four people will experience a mental health problem of some kind every year in England, with one in six people experiencing a common mental health problem in any given week. It’s an astonishing statistic that is likely to have been compounded further by the pandemic and recent lockdowns.


We mention this because earlier in the month news broke that many of the country’s largest companies, including the banks Nationwide and Lloyds, are to offer a significant proportion of their employees hybrid working options on a permanent basis. Whilst this feels like a natural evolution, with many workers enthused about the benefits of home-working and the greater work/ life balance it affords them, there are other employees that may not look at these changes optimistically. It is important then, for health and safety practitioners to put into place practices that support employees who may live alone and not feel as connected to the outside world as they did before the pandemic. Mental health and wellbeing is one of the greatest challenges businesses face in the coming years, and those organisations that put it at the forefront of their business are sure to be the ones that thrive.


In this issue, Lone Worker Protection takes centre stage, with Globalstar telling us how it supported Scotland’s Perth & Kinross Council with keeping its employees safe across more than 2000 square miles of mountainous territory. Elsewhere, SafeGroup’s Managing Director Mike Drake, looks at the importance of slip prevention as wet leisure facilities reopen after lockdown in the Slips, Trips and Falls spotlight, and OH One examines the responsibilities of employers regarding health surveillance and the challenges of ensuring HSE compliance in a post-pandemic world for the Compliance & Risk Assessment feature.


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We also have all the details you need for what's going on with Safety & Health Expo 2021. This year, the event has both a virtual (1-30 June) and in-person (12-14 July, ExCeL, London) exhibition. As one of the leading industry exhibitions, SHExpo brings tens of thousands of health and safety practitioners together on a yearly basis and it’s well worth being a part of if you’re keen to see the latest solutions, keep up-to-date with the latest safety strategies and expand your professional network. You can find out all the information you need in the preview on page 40.


Enjoy the issue.


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