Health and Safety – mastering the basics
Health and Safety – mastering the basics Protecting your employees in the workplace doesn’t have to be difficult so long as you follow a few basic principles. When starting out, there are four steps to building your first health and safety policy – completing each one will help raise standards across your business, keeping your …Read the Full Post
The Perks of Staying Safe: How Health and Safety Can Save Your Business Money
The Perks of Staying Safe: How Health and Safety Can Save Your Business Money Think health and safety is all about stern-faced warnings about workplace risk assessments and watching out for nasty hazards? Think again. Keeping your workplace safer also makes extremely good business sense. In fact, the HSE’s Judith Hackitt shared a great blog …Read the Full Post
Returning soldiers display dangers of airborne dust
Returning soldiers display dangers of airborne dust Aside from the obvious hazards of working in a warzone, soldiers may begin to show signs of other occupational symptoms months or years after returning home. Research carried out by the Veterans Association in America has found that soldiers who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have far higher …Read the Full Post
Look Up – Stay Safe! How to Protect Yourself When Working at Heights
Look Up – Stay Safe! How to Protect Yourself When Working at Heights Think working at heights is one of those things you can take lightly? Well, here’s a sobering stat: the number of working days lost due to slips, trips and falls from heights added up to a whopping 1.5 million. That’s a lot …Read the Full Post
Are you killing your sedentary workers?
Are you killing your sedentary workers? One news story that keeps coming back time and again is that of the health risks associated with sedentary jobs. It doesn’t take a genius to realise that sitting down all day is bad for our waistlines and general health, but research by scientists suggest that the long-term risks …Read the Full Post
Missed inspections increase the risk of serious injury or death
Missed health and safety inspections increase the risk of serious injury or even death Fashion giant Hugo Boss has recently left court with a stinging £1.2 million pound fine after judges ruled that in-store health and safety failings had resulted in the death of a four-year old boy. The unfortunate youngster was killed after a …Read the Full Post
Health and safety applies to the dead too
Health and safety applies to the dead too Health and safety issues have led the headlines in recent weeks. A major rollercoaster crash at the Alton Towers theme park caused four young people to be seriously injured, closing the venue for several days as an HSE inspection got under way. However there was also trouble …Read the Full Post
Why Skimping on Your Gas Safety Checks Can Cost You More Than Just a Fine
Why Skimping on Your Gas Safety Checks Can Cost You More Than Just a Fine Recently, we saw a repeat offender that’s come across our radar far too many times. Another dodgy boiler installation done by yet another unregulated worker. Was he a member of the Gas Safety Register? I’m guessing you already know the …Read the Full Post
Why You Really Should Have Employers’ Liability Insurance!
Why You Really Should Have Employers’ Liability Insurance! Another week – another business wincing as they get handed a hefty fine for doing something that they could have totally avoided. Or in this case – it’s the not-doing that landed them in hot water with the HSE, when a Staffordshire company ended up being hit …Read the Full Post
Drinking on the job?
Drinking on the job? Although considered socially acceptable just one generation ago, a cheeky pint or three at lunchtime is now actively discouraged in almost every profession (except perhaps marketing!). A recent study carried quoted by the Daily Star suggests that almost every one of the 2600 workers surveyed had been drunk at work at …Read the Full Post