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 […]
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If Safety PAL doesn’t measurably improve your health and safety compliance in the first 90 days, we will refund you in full. There are no hidden terms, just a promise backed by complete confidence in our system. That’s why we created Safety PAL: a simple, award-winning system designed to cut admin time, engage your workforce, […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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Henry Ford famously said, “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse.” His customers were limited by what they knew—horses for transportation. Similarly, many businesses focus on incremental improvements in Health & Safety, looking for specific tools to help with tasks like risk assessments, but this approach only […]
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 […]