A construction company has been convicted of the manslaughter of two workers who fell to their deaths while hauling a heavy sofa into a luxury west London flat.
We've recently updated our Trades Health and Safety Handbook to make it more accessible for the reader. It's aimed at trade employees and is kept short and simple, so it is a useful reference guide for health and safety. We customise the handbook for each company, so...
When we recruit our Health and Safety team members we look for personable but diligent people who like to do things right, take pride in their work, like to feel valued, are passionate about sensible H&S and clearly get the purpose of risk assessment.
Anyone who works with or is likely to come in contact with asbestos is required to have a level of asbestos awareness training, which employers are required to provide as part of their duties under the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
From 6 April 2012, the reporting requirement for over-three-day injuries to workers will change to over-seven-day injuries. From then, you must report work-related injuries where a worker has been incapacitated for more than seven consecutive days.
Professor Lofstedt, Professor of Risk Management at King’s College London, was tasked in Early 2011 to provide the government with recommendations to reduce the regulatory burden of UK Health and Safety Regulations. Here are the main recommendations from his report.
We have just added a new retained service page to our website! It is perfect for small businesses who don’t employ a full-time H&S adviser but want access to sensible, business tailored advice throughout the year.
You can now follow us on Twitter, our username is SafewellOHS. Find us at http://twitter.com/safewellohs. We look forward to following you back and reading your Tweets!
We are here to make health and safety accessible and easy for everyone. Please call on 01793 852951 or message us to help you.
