Building a Safety Culture: Beyond the Google Search We’ve all been there: you type “safety culture” into a search engine and get bombarded with information. While learning is crucial (we’ll get to that!), wading through endless articles and concepts might not be the most efficient way to build a real, actionable safety strategy for your […]
Category Archives: Managing contractors
Compliance, Health and Safety, Managing contractors, Risk management, Safety culture
Workplace health and safety… Fines are not fine
12
Apr
Apr
Game Changer – Workplace Health and Safety. Whether it’s a failure to protect your workers against injury or harm, or your looking to build proof to protect you and your organisation from prosecution, this video is vital in helping you understand the basics of meeting the required workplace health and safety standards. This short video explains […]
Health and Safety, Managing contractors, Risk management, Safeguarding employees, Safety culture
Smart Devices Improving Health & Safety
17
Mar
Mar
Driving toward a SMARTER and SAFER workplace Modern-day employers use SMART devices and SMART technology to give them an edge, the agility to communicate better, improve workers’ awareness and knowledge is vital.This vital addition helps prevent accidents and protects the employer from injury claims or breaches of health and safety.Safety PAL recognises the employer can […]
Compliance, Job management, Managing contractors, Risk management, Safeguarding employees, Training
Successful Training
15
Mar
Mar
Training will prevent injury and protection from prosecution. This short Safety PAL video (Click on the video below) hits the mark for helping understand legal obligations often missed and how to protect companies and individual directors from prosecutions and fines. What does health and safety regulations require me to do? Health and safety regulations require […]
Compliance, Health and Safety, Managing contractors, Risk management, Sentencing Guidelines
Risk Assessments Aren’t The Problem
05
Feb
Feb
Do you find it challenging to prove your workers have read, understood and following risk assessments? This Company was prosecuted in January 2021 for failing to risk assess and provide engineers with effective information, instruction and training. This Company – according to the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) left engineers to rely on techniques they […]
Compliance, Health and Safety, Managing contractors, Risk management, Sentencing Guidelines
How To Communicate Better And Influence More
12
Jan
Jan
Communication is vital and the only way you can influence good behaviours How can you ensure your workers are working safely and following your policies, risk assessments and operating procedures, if the workers haven’t seen them, read them to understand the safest way of working? How many times have you heard: “I didn’t know I […]
Compliance, Health and Safety, Managing contractors, Risk management, Sentencing Guidelines
Safety PAL gives you a FREE SIMPLIFY
27
Oct
Oct
We all need a SIMPLIFY; it helps us all to communicate vital instructions better and avoid any misunderstandings, which, reduces risk and increases productivity Simplifying health and safety is something Safety PAL aims to do for every employer, director, manager and worker. Like these individuals, all have responsibilities when it comes to health and safety, […]
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 […]
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. […]
13 of the 28 companies prosecuted in February 2019 *1 where prosecuted due to lead company failing to manage their contractors – their supply chain. All businesses like you will have some form of health and safety in place have an employed H&S manager/team or engage the services of an external advisor. But how robust […]
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