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What is a Health and Safety Consultant?
A Health & Safety consultant is someone with the competence to provide advice and guidance on compliance with H&S legal requirement.
What is Health and Safety?
Health and Safety is knowing what hazards can affect a person’s health and managing the potential issue.
What are Offsite Occupational Health Services?
What are Offsite Occupational Health Services?
What are Night Worker Health Assessments?
Shift workers, particularly those who work at night, may be at risk of ill health because shift work can disrupt our body clock (by interfering with the production of hormones by the body), disturb sleep and cause fatigue.
What is a Lung Function Test?
Respiratory screening or lung function testing is just that, checking the function of the lungs to make sure nothing at work is reducing the employee’s function.
What is RIDDOR, and What is a RIDDOR Reportable Accident?
RIDDOR is the acronym for Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995. RIDDOR reportable incidents include death, major/over-7-day incapacitation/3-day work incapacitation injury, disease or dangerous occurrence, all work-related.
How to Report an Accident at Work
All injuries and incidents falling under the RIDDOR definition must be reported to the HSE’s Incident Contact Centre (ICC) either by telephone or online. Here we guide you on how to do this.
What is Health and Safety in ICT?
Health and Safety in ICT (Information and Communications Technology) is mostly about understanding how to work safely with computers and environments with lots of technology equipment.
What is a Fork Lift Truck Health Assessment?
Like all drivers at work, forklift truck drivers must be medically fit to drive a forklift truck. At Safewell we adopt the DVLA standards given by their Drivers’ Medical Unit, which is recommended by the HSE.
What is the Safe distance From a Welding Arc Flash?
What is the Safe distance From a Welding Arc Flash?
