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 […]
Category Archives: Safety culture
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 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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Did you realise that health and safety law applies to work activities, including Driving While At Work’? Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it does, and more than a quarter of all road traffic incidents may involve somebody which is driving as part of their work at the time? – Statistic took […]
Compliance, Safeguarding employees, Safety culture
Is Workplace Alcohol & Drug Misuse getting better?
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Being invited to a round table discussion with the ‘Working Well Together‘ team and the HSE (Health and Safety Executive), one of the members asked for information on Alcohol and Drug testing in the workplace. The problem this individual manager had weren’t discussed, but I can only assume the company is suffering from lost productivity or […]
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PPX Metal Management Ltd implemented Safety PAL 6 months ago after quick business growth and a failure to prove his workers had actually read and understood H&S information, which increased its business risk. Managing Director, Paul Pearce, explains the betterment achieved in his organisation in just a few months – from the attitude and behaviours […]
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 […]