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Changes to RIDDOR coming April 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.

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Lofstedt Report – Review Burden of Health and Safety

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.

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Ladder Exchange 2011

HSE is launching the fourth Ladder Exchange initiative from 1 September until 30 November. This annual programme gives UK businesses an easy way to replace broken, damaged or bent ladders and trade them in for safe new ones.

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New Retained Service!

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.

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Safewell are looking for OHAs

Safewell currently have a requirement for occupational health advisers and nurses to meet increasing demands from new client companies. If you are experienced, trained and qualified in occupational health, then we would like to hear from you.

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Safewell now on Twitter!

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!

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Georgina Williams
April 20, 2022

John Williams Heating Services Ltd

We have worked with Safewell for many years and are retained clients, so we have developed an excellent working relationship with the team. However, this really came into its own when Covid 19 appeared.

As a Plumbing and Heating business, we were able to carry on working during the lockdown but only for responding to emergencies. We were obviously very concerned about the health and safety of our employees and before we even had chance to get in touch with Safewell, they had emailed us offering their assistance. It is hard to put down on paper how that made us feel - we like everyone else felt totally at sea, which way to turn, what to do? But Safewell were there guiding, supporting and being totally brilliant. Their attention to detail is very impressive and reassuring and we feel able to ask lots of questions without feeling silly.

During the pandemic Safewell helped us to write risk assessments, safety procedures and protocols. They kept in touch regularly, issuing new guidance as soon as it appeared and checking in with us. They held group Q&A sessions over Zoom which were helpful, and knowing other businesses were facing the same challenges and having the opportunity to discuss issues was invaluable. Their help during the preparation for a full return to work was brilliant, they enabled us to be fully prepared and feel in control, and when we had our first case of Covid within the team, because we had planned our response it felt ok.

I think our team felt very reassured by our robust approach and that our office was Covid secure.
We are extremely grateful to all the team at Safewell

HSE Publishes Asbestos Control Limit Review

The Health and Safety Executive has today published its review of Great Britain’s asbestos control limit. The conclusion: the GB limit will remain at 0.1 fibres per millilitre, measured as a 4-hour time-weighted average

Updated HSE Guidance on Managing Infection and Biological Risks

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published significantly improved guidance to help employers manage infection risks and biological hazards in the workplace.

Promoting a Positive Food Safety Culture Online Course

This course explains why positive food safety culture plays such a vital role in protecting consumers, staff and business reputation. It explores key benefits of embedding strong food safety values across an organisation, including improved compliance, reduced risk and increased staff engagement. The course also looks at how food safety culture can be assessed, monitored and continually improved.

Manual Handling (Including Animate Handling) Online Course

This course outlines what constitutes manual handling and covers the regulations and legislation that apply to manual handling tasks, including animate handling. It then covers safe handling techniques and how to develop good habits regarding manual handling. Finally, it introduces some practical solutions and the use of mechanical aids.

A Warehouse Accident Turned Into Proof of Strong Health & Safety Systems

Following a workplace accident in their warehouse, the business needed urgent expert guidance on the RIDDOR reporting process and reassurance that their existing Health & Safety arrangements were robust

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