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Join the debate about the new era of UK health and safety at IOSH 2011
Invest in a trip to IOSH 2011 and you're guaranteed rich educational content and networking with over 2000 health and safety practitioners and over 100 leading suppliers. This year, attend the con...
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IOM scientists short listed for Lloyd's Science of Risk research prize
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Galea who was short listed and Craig Poland who came runner up at the first annual Lloyd's The Science of Risk Prize. Craig Poland receives his prizeLloyd's, in collab...
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Completion of major soils testing project by the Analytical Lab
For the past ten months, the IOM's analytical lab has been determining the asbestos content of a stream of soil samples from gardens in a housing estate in Wolverhampton. The work is part of a maj...
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IOM undertakes training for Malaysian health and safety inspectors
Dr John Cherrie visited Kuala Lumpur during November to run two training courses for a group of Malaysian Government health and safety inspectors. The courses covered the problems arising from skin ex...
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Bedford Prize awarded to IOM scientists
The Thomas Bedford Memorial Prize, named in honour of the first President of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), is given every two years to the author or authors of the most outs...
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IOM Pesticides Project
The use of pesticides and their possible health effects is a subject that gives rise to much public concern and discussion. There have been reports of ill health attributed to pesticide exposure. In p...
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Good Work Good Health - Mental Wellbeing in the Telecommunications Industry
"The IOM has recently completed a research project on mental wellbeing in the European telecommunications industry. The work was carried out on behalf of ETNO, the European Telecommunication Netwo...
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Good Work Good Health - Mental Wellbeing in the Telecommunications Industry
"The IOM has recently completed a research project on mental wellbeing in the European telecommunications industry. The work was carried out on behalf of ETNO, the European Telecommunication Netwo...
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IOM gains UKAS accreditation for airborne microbiological organism sampling in hospitals
IOM Consulting has gained UKAS accreditation for sampling airborne microbiological organisms in hospital operating theatre suites and hospital sterile service clean rooms. Sampling is carried...
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Compensation for asbestos-related disease - a report from a recent conference
"The recent Berrymans Lace Mawer LLP occupational disease conference held in Manchester provided a useful update on the key developments in the field of medico-legal work undertaken by the IOM scienti...