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Editorial Editor Sarah Robinson sarah@opusbm.co.uk


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Hello and welcome to the November/December issue of Tomorrow’s Health & Safety.


There’s a lot to reflect on from the past 12 months, many of those quite inconceivable if you were to have asked us last December. The first year in three without any Covid-19 restrictions, a war in Europe, three different Prime Ministers, one disastrous so-called ‘mini-budget’, an outbreak of monkeypox of the shores of blighty, the death of the longest reigning monarch in UK history, climate catastrophe in Pakistan, a $44bn takeover of one of the world’s biggest social media sites, and Arsenal holding the top spot in the premier league at Christmas. I realise that list mixes the humorous with the awful, but the point is to highlight how much has happened this year. We are truly living in unprecedented times; circumstances constantly in flux and without any obvious end point.


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In this issue, Guy Osmond, MD of Osmond Ergonomics looks at the challenges to employee health that now exist because of the new ear of remote and hybrid working, whilst CHAS looks at the steps workers and employers can take to prevent muscular skeletal disorders in the construction industry for our Human Factors and Ergonomics feature. In the Compliance & Risk Management spotlight, Protex AI looks at ways artificial intelligence can be used alongside data collection software to improve OSH outcomes, and Russ Langthorne, Managing Director of HAVSPRO, explains how monitoring can help ease the pain of Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome in our HAVS feature. There’s plenty of other features to get stuck into over the Christmas period.


On another note, our Tomorrow’s Health & Safety awards guide will be published in December. It’s a chance for all our readers to reflect on the products and services that have helped them the most throughout 2022. Please do get your votes in when it opens. It’s a really good chance to celebrate the best the industry has to offer.


On behalf of the whole Tomorrow’s Health & Safety team, we wish all our readers a well-deserved relaxing Christmas and a happy New Year.


EDITOR’S VOICE


Sarah Robinson, Editor


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