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Sheffield Hallam University is the first academic institution to achieve the prestigious Leesman+ award. Leesman+ is an accreditation that rewards organisations for exemplary high performing workplaces. To date, just 4% of the buildings surveyed have achieved a Leesman Lmi workplace effectiveness score of 70 or above. SHU is the first university to win this award. The Leesman benchmarking tool considers the physical and service features that make up a workspace, in the context of the…

The winners of the BREEAM Awards 2016, the world’s leading building rating scheme, were announced at a ceremony held at the London Marriot Hotel in Grosvenor Square. The winners were drawn from highest scoring buildings in 2015 – under the BREEAM schemes for assessing building sustainability – and include many of the most innovatively sustainable buildings in the UK and countries across Europe, including France, Holland, Sweden and Turkey. The awards cover a variety of…

LEADING workplace equipment supplier Slingsby says that newly introduced sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences mean it’s more important than ever that employers stay on top of their safety obligations. The changes were introduced on 1st February 2016 as part of the Definitive Guideline for the Sentencing of Health and Safety, Corporate Manslaughter and Food Safety and Hygiene offences published by the Sentencing Council for England Wales. For the first time, it gives courts…