The Health and Safety inspector may enter your work premises at any time.
The Health and Safety inspector may enter your work premises at any time.
As an employer you need to make sure that all your employees are trained well enough to be able to work safely.
These are some considerations when engaging sub-contractors:
Clear leadership is one of the main priorities for the development of a positive Safety Culture.
As we know to manage Health and Safety as an Employer we must either:
A Director of an engineering company jailed for eight months resulting in a death of a young person and disqualified from working as a company director for 10 years.
I would like to take this opportunity to introduce Ramsay Safety Solutions Ltd. We are a local safety consultancy company, working in partnership with our clients, to ensure risks are managed in the school environment.
The Health and Safety Executive seem to think so, more than two million people are exposed to noise levels that could be harmful.
As from 1st June 2015, changes been made to the statutory regimes that provide you with information on the hazards of substances and mixtures you purchase.
1 million people who worked during 2013 were suffering from an illness (long-standing as well as new cases) they believed was caused or made worse by their current or past work. 0.5 million of these were new conditions which started during the year. (This data refers to 2011/12)
Scientific research and Accident Investigation have shown that more than 90% of accidents, injuries or illnesses that occur in the workplace occur due to the Human Factors of an accidental occurrence. These Human factors involve behaviours that lead to slips, trips and falls, ignoring of safety procedures due to stress reactions, tiredness and fatigue.
It is important to make Health and Safety a priority this year for all business owners as the Health and Safety Sentencing Guidelines Council are in the process of consulting on these and it is likely that sentences for Health and Safety breaches will increase.
