Every business we own, work for and even contract for has a legal duty to put in place suitable arrangements to manage health and safety, and individual directors, managers and workers can be personally liable when these duties are breached – Members of the board have both collective and individual responsibilities in health and safety. […]
Category Archives: Safety culture
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How Using Safety PAL Succesfully Prevented A £25k Injury Claim
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Sep
Sep
Joanne; Company Director and Safety PAL client explains how she defended a £25k injury claim – no fees and no costs On the morning of the 30th June 2020, we received an injury claim email from an Award-winning Top 200 UK law firm which specialises in helping injured people claim damages in connection with accidents. […]
Health and Safety, Protection, Risk management, Safeguarding employees, Safety culture
Are you a fish? (Safety Culture)
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Aug
Aug
According to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) “The safety culture of an organisation is the product of individual and group values, attitudes, perceptions, competencies, and patterns of behaviour that determine the commitment to, and the style and proficiency of, an organisation’s health and safety management Every morning rain or shine, I go over to […]
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) – the UK government agency responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare in Great Britain, has just released the annual work-related fatality figures for 2019/20. One hundred eleven (111) workers were fatally injured while at work between April 2019 and March 2020; […]
Health Surveillance – Delivery and proof Maximising on the interaction with your employees ensuring they are working safely and staying healthy is essential in reopening your businesses and bringing furloughed workers back to a fully operational enterprise. We recently expanded our suite of health and safety tools to include a unique Wellbeing Monitor; we have […]
As part of one of the biggest weeks in health and safety – Mental Health Awareness Week, Safety PAL has finished 6months of preparation, design, development and testing to include our brand new Wellbeing Mood Monitor as part of our award-winning suite of health, safety and wellbeing tools. Why did we choose to develop […]
Time is ticking, and we all want to return to some form of normality, but as business owners, we need delivery and proof, as Inspectors are out and about. You and your organisation may have already resumed operations by creating dedicated COVID-19 Company Policy and associated COVID-19 Risk Assessments, including many control measures. But […]
Over the last 13 weeks, I have seen workers adapt to a new way of working, but I have also seen managers and workers ignore established safety policies and procedures. When questioned, their excuse was because of protecting workers due to the COVID-19 pandemic. New measures are important. Social distancing is essential and has […]
Workplace Training is now cheaper and more effective than ever The costs businesses incur when having to send employees on training days as well as the employee downtime is a financial burden every business faces. Every business has a legal requirement to provide suitable and sufficient training to help the individual complete the task safely. […]
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 […]