Safety leadership and the lessons still going unlearned Introduction At our event at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London on 23 September 2026, Dame Judith Hackitt asked a question for all safety leaders: are we really making progress? For this year’s Annual Lecture, we partnered with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), bringing together
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The Enhanced Learning from Incidents (ELFi) project, a joint initiative of EEMUA, Thomas Ashton Institute, and The University of Manchester, aims to understand and provide both insight and potential solutions to ensure lessons learned in one sector of society or industry help prevent injuries and accidents in another. Each year, millions of workers worldwide lose
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Risk, Regulation and Innovation: What needs to change? In November 2025, the Nuclear Regulatory Review described a sector preoccupied with paperwork at the expense of real safety and deeply conservative in the face of innovation. The Prime Minister called it a mindset of process over outcome and asked for the lessons to be applied across
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Recent fires are testing more than our fire service By 28 July, fire and rescue services in England and Wales had responded to 706 wildfires in 2026. More than 200 of those incidents were recorded in less than two weeks, during another spell of prolonged hot and dry weather. In North Wales, a wildfire in
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Submission by Hazards Forum to the House of Lords Select Committee on National Resilience Background In March 2026, the House of Lords Committee on National Resilience published a call for written evidence for its inquiry into national and local preparedness and resilience. It was inviting interested individuals and organisations to submit their views on these
Robots we can trust: Unlocking the UK’s potential in smart machines Introduction The Hazards Forum event, ‘Robots we can trust: Unlocking the UK’s potential in smart machines’, chaired by Marc McBride from the Emerging and Future Technology Interest Group, focused on the rapid advancement of robotics and autonomous systems (RAS) and how they are redefining
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