Author Archives: Karl Spencer

Essential Business Support

Committed to providing better health information and support for business directors and workers The reason Safety PAL exists (our Just Cause) is to improve the health, safety and wellbeing for every worker, while protecting every director from prosecution. For this reason and also to help keep compliance costs as low as possible, Safety PAL has […]

COVID-19 The new illness

Always committed to providing better health information and support for everyone In response to the Covid-19 situation here in the UK and across the globe, Safety PAL has taken a number of precautionary measures to ensure we can continue to support you and your business as well as keeping all workers safe.   World Health […]

HSE provides free and essential health and safety material

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) maintains an extensive library of essential guidance documents, leaflets and ACOP’s (Approved Code Of Practice) helping every business fulfill their health and safety requirements.   And even though, there is this vast library of free information from the UK government agency responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace […]

Smarter – Safer – Faster

SMARTER SAFER FASTER In today’s climate, businesses put efficiency at the front of any SMART decision, and in respect of the company’s health and safety, look toward technology to deliver a streamlined and effective approach to business operations.   A smarter and safer worker is more efficient and productive one. Safety PAL has developed a […]

100% Money Back Guarantee

If Safety PAL doesn’t measurably improve your health and safety compliance in the first 90 days, we will refund you in full. There are no hidden terms, just a promise backed by complete confidence in our system. That’s why we created Safety PAL: a simple, award-winning system designed to cut admin time, engage your workforce, […]

Case Study: £965,000 for no risk assessment

Date of Offence Jan 2015 Date of Hearing Apr 2018 Breach of Health and Safety At Work Act 1974, Section 3, Sub Section 1 Fine £965,000 +£7,157 costs Details of Incident Two companies were fined a total of £965,000 after a painter fell through a passenger waiting room roof in Croydon in 2015. The injured […]

2020 vision – Using the New Year optimism to help prevent and protect.

The New Year brings the chance to change and start again fresh and reinvigorated 2020 is reported to be the year to bring opportunity and calm. So looking forward to this new decade, let’s use this revitalized optimism, opportunity and calm to evolve your workforce into a SMARTER workforce and create proof your organisation is […]

Don’t Settle For a Faster Horse…

Henry Ford famously said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” His customers were limited by what they knew—horses for transportation. Similarly, many businesses focus on incremental improvements in Health & Safety, looking for specific tools to help with tasks like risk assessments, but this approach only […]

Bad Tools – Bad Job

How can a water leak which should of only cost the landlord £38.50, help with making your health and safety easier?   When I came into the office Tuesday morning Our office is an old converted barn with beautiful views of the Nottinghamshire countryside. When opening our office door, I was welcomed by a wet […]

Six out of six

Risks exist in every business, and nobody pays much attention to them until things go wrong! Here are the last six September 2019 prosecutions, as detailed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Before watching the video, imagine the initial conversation the six individual company directors had when confronted by the Enforcing Officer. Then think… Are […]