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Sensible Advice for Occupational Health & Safety Professionals
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Lithium batteries:
Is your workplace managing the risk?
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Lithium-ion batteries are now commonplace in workplaces, powering everything from laptops and power tools to e-bikes, e-scooters and portable chargers. While convenient, damaged, faulty or improperly charged batteries can present a serious fire risk, with incidents capable of causing rapid fire spread, toxic smoke and significant business disruption.
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As more lithium-powered devices enter the workplace, organisations should ensure battery-related hazards are being considered within their risk assessments and fire safety arrangements. Our latest article looks at common warning signs, practical control measures, safe battery disposal, and extinguishing fires.
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Protect your team from silica dust
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Cutting, drilling, or grinding materials like concrete, brick, stone, or tile produces respirable crystalline silica (RCS) - a fine dust that causes permanent, severe lung damage. With the HSE actively targeting silica through a major inspection programme, ensuring workplace compliance is more critical than ever. Our new online Silica Dust Awareness course covers:
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- Silica Hazards: Where it occurs and the critical illnesses linked to exposure.
- Real-World Impact: A case study demonstrating the human cost.
- COSHH Duties: Clear legal responsibilities for both employers and employees.
- Proven Controls: Implementing extraction, dust suppression, health surveillance, and correct PPE/RPE.
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Get 10% off this course to the end of 2026 using code SDA2026 at checkout. For retained customers, usual discount applies.
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Twenty Years of Safewell
- and a new home - to celebrate
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Safewell is celebrating a major milestone this year by turning 20 and moving to a new home. Two decades after our founders, Nick and Gail, first met at work in Swindon, we've come full circle by relocating our operations to the town’s bright, modern offices at Nexus Business Centre.
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This recent move marks the beginning of our next chapter, combining our occupational health and safety advice and services with the vibrant energy of the Nexus business community. While we will certainly miss Royal Wootton Bassett, we are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us, worked alongside us, and sent lovely anniversary messages as we step into this new era.
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