According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE); A contractor is basically anyone who is brought in to work at your premises that is not an employee. The ‘client’ is technically the employee who uses the contractor in their workplace. Both you the ‘client’ and the ‘contractor’ have responsibilities under health and safety law. […]
Category Archives: Health and Safety
I was very grateful to be asked to attend a mock trial by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). It was a great opportunity to see the court’s process, the questioning, and the sentencing from the comfort of the juror seats – without all the anxiety, stress and fear of being in the dock! But […]
We all are guilty of doing the easy bits first and putting off the hard more difficult things until tomorrow, next week or even further down our to-do pile. But when it comes to the health of your workers and the safety of your workplace, this level of procrastination can be very serious. Businesses always […]
What do you think is number one in the list of the greatest risk businesses face today, the common risk which threatens every company’s capacity to trade? It’s Safety… Number two maybe Brexit, three and four, possibly austerity and unpredictable external factors. This is because safety is the only single requirement which places a responsibility […]
On a wintery January night, I attended the IOSH branch meeting at the Nottingham Forest Football Club. The speaker Richard Jones MSc CFIOSH, IOSH Head of Policy and Public Affairs was booked to talk about the ‘Benefits of Good OHS Management, Main Characteristics of ISO 45001 & Key Changes from OHSAS 18001’ I’ve been waiting […]
There is now an updated version of this article regarding Safety Culture Be honest! Are you and your organisation robust enough to deal with an accident or visit from an inspector? In my career as a worker, manager, inspector and director, I wish I had a £1 for every time someone said to me, “my health and safety is […]
Compliance, Health and Safety, Risk management, Safeguarding employees
The Importance of Managing Fatigue in the Workplace by Abby Hart
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Nowadays, people often glorify overtime culture and not getting enough sleep — all in the name of hustling and hard work. Unfortunately, this has made stress part and parcel of work to the point that its serious repercussions are often overlooked, allowing a seemingly typical “tiring day” to stretch into fatigue. Fatigue is defined […]
Nobody has ever argued Health and Safety isn’t important… What they argue is that health and safety hinders progress, restricts workers from doing a full day’s work, limits managers time by increasing paperwork and it’s is a near impossibility to show and guide every worker safely all of the time everyday. We know you should […]
When we deliver a Safety PAL demonstration, we always ask the client their reasons for deciding to improve health, safety, environment and quality? Here are 10 of the typical answers were given: We had an accident – it costs tens of thousands and we can’t afford it to happen again. To save money, we need […]
Correct punctuation can save a life… Let’s eat Grandpa. Let’s eat, Grandpa. So if the correct punctuation can save a life, what does it mean when safety-critical information hasn’t been understood due to a worker speaking a different language? It will take 5 minutes to read this article, maybe the best 5 minutes you […]