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 […]
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Date of Offence Jan 2015 Date of Hearing Apr 2018 Breach of Health and Safety At Work Act 1974, Section 3, Sub Section 1 Fine £965,000 +£7,157 costs Details of Incident Two companies were fined a total of £965,000 after a painter fell through a passenger waiting room roof in Croydon in 2015. The injured […]
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 […]
Risks exist in every business, and nobody pays much attention to them until things go wrong! Here are the last six September 2019 prosecutions, as detailed by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) Before watching the video, imagine the initial conversation the six individual company directors had when confronted by the Enforcing Officer. Then think… Are […]
Dealing with a Health and Safety incident or accident is something that nearly every business will need to manage just like any other business problem. The problem An incident or accident sends a shocking ripple through any business having a knock-on effect on other business sectors, their clients and even parts of their supply […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]