Howard Fidderman is a freelance editor and journalist with 20 years of researching and writing experience. Since 1992, Howard has edited and written for Industrial Relations Services’ Health and Safety Bulletin, the leading monthly journal in its field. During that time, he also devised and wrote the quarterly Eurosafety. Howard has recently completed major projects for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) on health and safety assistance for small firms, pre-qualification schemes and on helping organisations report publicly on their health and safety performance. He also helped adjudicate RoSPA’s most recent health and safety awards. Previously he worked for six years as political adviser to Gavin Strang MP and Jo Richardson MP, the then Opposition Spokesperson’s on health and safety and equal opportunities, and for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament’s Sanity magazine, where he ran the news and arts review sections. He is the co-author of Fit for the job: health, safety and disability at work; and editor of Sick building syndrome: the invisible burden on office workers and Using personal computers to manage safety. He also writes for other publications, most recently an Institute of Directors’ book on health and well-being.
