Doing more on Mental Health There are many myths on mental health, stress, anxiety etc. This article hasn’t been written to provide you with even more statistics or more misleading information. This article has been written to help people and businesses provide a solution in better managing Mental Health. If you are reading this article, you […]
Category Archives: Health and Safety
Are you certain you and your organisation are doing everything practicably possible (practicably possible means feasible and is capable of being done) with contractor management to prevent harm and protect your business while contractors are operating on your site? Are you thinking, as you yet haven’t had a major problem, why do I need to change? […]
Measuring failures in health and safety are never easy, but effective management and auditing will provide a solution. Measurement is an essential step in every business management process to provide continual improvement. The HSE (Health and Safety Executive) state: The foundation of effective performance measurement is an effective planning system, which produces specifications and […]
A unique event to help reduce RISk by partnering HR with H&S To capitalise on unifying these two quite disjointed departments and reduce exposure to risk through fixed cost, practical and commercial robust solutions we have created this unique event. Date and time: 7th December 2018 10:00 – 14:30 Read more and register here […]
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Drug and alcohol misuse is always a hot health & safety topic in today’s businesses. For employers failing to manage this correctly, it can be a costly error. The latest statistics available are as follows: Research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in 2014 highlighted that drugs and alcohol are the […]
Risk Assessments Can you really be sure your business is managing H&S as the law requires? Section 3 of The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 states: 3.1 Every Employer shall make a suitable and sufficient assessment of – (a) the risks to the health and safety of his employees to […]
A normal day on a construction site, sun shining and busy workers. All workers collectively (to save time) received their normal morning work and safety briefing; they then proceeded on to their daily tasks. Just before lunch, one worker, let’s call him Dave, lent an extendable ladder up against a high-level conveyor belt in order […]
Best practices for protecting visitors, delivery drivers when on your site A common factor in delivery accidents is “who is responsible for what” in terms of safety. In most work situations the safety of an employee is primarily the responsibility of his or her employer, but in order to deliver or collect goods, employees have […]
A nice tool; your employee signs into an IOSH course, they watch the video and answer a series of multiple-choice questions, then if they achieve the pass rate, great, they’re now safer. Can we take a minute to look at what the IOSH course fails to achieve? How is this certificate to be validated by supervisors before […]
My thoughts and follow-up response to the article, Safety Roundtable: IT’s getting better By Karl Spencer Link to the original article: https://www.healthandsafetyatwork.com/technology/software-roundtable At a meeting I attended recently, I felt as if I was in the minority. I thought that most of the people in the room failed to open up to solving the problem, i.e., poor […]