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RoSPA is offering you the chance to win a Nintendo Wii or an Apple iPod Touch at the 2008 Safety and Health Expo - the must-attend health and safety at work event of the year.

Visit the RoSPA stand D30, and try your luck at matching a winning jigsaw piece on a huge puzzle board and walk away with hours of entertainment for the whole family. The pieces are available throughout the three-day event and the RoSPA awards.

Don’t forget to ask a stand adviser about other exciting features at this year's RoSPA stands including a 24ft climbing wall. There are also savings of 20% on any training booked on stand.

Don’t miss this ideal opportunity to network with peers, discover new innovations, discuss your requirements and secure discounted training and membership.

Injuries to doctors, nurses and other health workers have cost the National Health Service nearly a quarter of a billion pounds, new figures have revealed.

Figures from the Health and Safety Executive show health workers suffered more than 24,000 serious injuries in three years.

In the three years until April 2007, there were 24,165 occupational injuries to NHS workers that left staff unable to do their jobs for three days or more.

The average cost of an injury is £9,731, including the costs of lost working hours and finding replacement staff.

Health service unions said the injuries included slips, trips and falls, injuries while moving and handling patients, needle injuries and exposure to harmful chemicals.

Do you work in the care sector?
Protect your staff with RoSPA’s Safer People Handling training:

Please call 0121 248 2233 for more information.

Here at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, we provide information, advice, resources and training concerned with the promotion of safety and the prevention of accidents in all areas of life - at work, in the home, on the roads, in schools, at leisure and on (or near) water.

We are about to rebuild the RoSPA web site and we need to ensure that the section headings within the site give a clear unambiguous indication of the content which you, the user, will find within that section. We would appreciate it if you could take a look at some alternative suggestions for section headings and rank them, based on which you think best achieve this aim. Remember, your opinion counts!

Organisations are increasingly hiring RoSPA Consultants on a flexible ‘pay-as-you-go’ basis to provide additional health and safety support when required. The benefits are:

To find out more please call 0121 248 2076 or email consultancy@rospa.com.

Did you know that 80% of accidents are caused by human error?

Employees need only make one correct decision preventing an accident on the back of training received, to make that training cost effective to their organisation. Training Matters is a short guide, which explains why it is important for businesses to invest in health and safety training. It gives summary advice on areas of likely training need, how to get started and where to go for further information.

RoSPA members can be the first to access two brand new guides via the RoSPA Member Zone.

In addition, you can visit us at the Safety & Health Expo (13-15 May NEC Birmingham) to find out more about how training could benefit your business.

Pursuing a career in Health and Safety? is a useful Q & A guide developed by RoSPA consultants and managers providing advice on how to get started in a career in Health and Safety, what employers look for in candidates, relevant qualifications required and how best to achieve them and advice on career progression to the top.

To access this invaluable advice, simply visit the RoSPA Member Zone (members only), log-in and go to the Workplace Safety section and click on the Training Matters or Contemplating a Career in Health and Safety?

Don’t forget that by accessing the RoSPA Member Zone you can also:

For more information, or to obtain your password, you can call 0121 248 2046 or email membership@rospa.com.

If you are a professional in a position to perform an audit of your organisation’s safety management systems, then this unique QSA Approved Auditor Course is for you.

This 5-day Audit course can train a member of staff to become an approved auditor for your company whatever audit system you choose to use. The course also trains delegates on the use of QSA, including ORBIT, RoSPA’s new audit software, which is designed to facilitate quick and efficient auditing and reporting upon return to the workplace.

The unique Quality Safety Audit (QSA) system was developed by RoSPA to provide a complete health and safety management audit, based on the principles of HSG65 and BS8800 and OHAS 180001. Not only does it provide a legal framework for compliance, QSA also lays the foundations of continuous safety improvement.

Next course dates: Birmingham 14 July 2008, Edinburgh 11 August 2008

For more information please call 0121 248 2233 or e-mail training@rospa.com

According to the HSE stress is likely to become the most dangerous risk to business in the early part of the 21st century. It claims that self-reported work-related stress, depression or anxiety account for an estimated 13.8 million reported lost working days per year in Britain.

All organisations have a legal obligation to take action on this important issue and as well as reducing sickness absence costs, tackling stress can have a positive effect on employee turnover, productivity, customer satisfaction and company image.

RoSPA’s Managing Stress and Violence one-day course, aims to empower managers to tackle the root causes of stress, including the role played by actual or threatened violence in the workplace. It adopts a risk assessment approach, with an emphasis on tackling stress and violence within existing health and safety management systems.

Next Course Date: Birmingham 05 June 2008.

For further details call 0121 248 2233 or email training@rospa.com to book now while places are still available.

With places still available, it's still not too late to book to attend one of RoSPA's high-level occupational safety conferences, taking place alongside this year's Safety and Health Expo on the 13th, 14th and 15th May in Birmingham. However - with just a few days remaining, this week represents your last opportunity to do so.

To find our how you can maximise the value of your Expo visit to your employer by attending one of RoSPA's conference events, whilst also aiding your own development and gaining CPD points, click here.

With discounts for member and other offers available, click here for further information, or call the booking hotline now on 0121 248 2120.

New for 2008! With the help of Birmingham City Council Road Safety Department, and the support of the Department for Transport, RoSPA has developed a new teaching resource ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) Key Stage 2 Road Safety Resource consists of a Teacher’s Guide and six Children’s Workbooks, the resource is designed to develop the spoken and written skills of learners of English as a second language, using a Road Safety theme.

Research shows that children from disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to be involved in road accidents – even more so if those children have poorly-developed English language skills. This resource aims to help address this problem. A number of key road safety words, phrases and messages are written in Bengali, Punjabi, Urdu and Polish – as well as in English (although speakers of other languages can be included as well).

These workbooks are available from RoSPA as a free booklet whilst stocks last (MS348 & MS358), or to download as a pdf.

Please call 0121 248 2126 for further information.