8 May Avoid the pain and costs of falls from height: No Falls Week 2024 Helping you work safely at height: A Blog Ahead Of No Falls Week 2024 Falls from height are the leading cause of workplace fatalities in the UK, making up 30% of all workplace deaths, with 40 fatalities in 2022-2023. Next week marks the inaugural No Falls Week campaign. No Falls Week (13 – 17 May … Read More
26 March Case Study: Safe Systems Of Work Safe systems of work and risk assessments are vital components in ensuring the safety and wellbeing of employees. Risk assessments help identify hazards and ensure the control measures in place are sufficient, while safe systems of work set out the procedures and protocols that ensure activities can be performed safely. By providing training on risk … Read More
13 February Choosing the right contractor – Health and Safety Consultants included Choosing the right contractor is crucial, especially when it comes to ensuring the safety and well-being of everyone involved, which is why Health and Safety Consultant are included in the decision-making process. Choosing and managing contractors is one of the topics our health and safety consultants talk about with our clients. This may include things … Read More
9 February Case Study: The Dangers Of Wood Dust Wood dust, a common by-product of a wide range of activities, can cause serious and irreversible health problems. As such, employers have a legal duty to control exposure to this hazardous substance. Failure to control exposure can result in asthma, dermatitis, irritation to the skin/eyes/nose, and can cause sino-nasal cancer. Wood dust is flammable and … Read More
28 October Wood Dust Dangers lead to fine A Northwich furniture company has been fined £16,000 after it repeatedly failed to protect its employees from exposure to wood dust. Pineland Furniture Ltd, based on Witton Street in the Cheshire town, was inspected by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) on two separate occasions over a two-year period – with both identifying identical breaches. Nathan … Read More
29 August HSE Campaign – DUST KILLS It is a truism that: “The consequences of Safety Failures happen swiftly, whereas the Consequences of Health Failures arrive slowly”. The HSE has spent must of the Summer visiting sites and driving the Dust Kills Campaign Failure to prevent life-threatening diseases caused by dust at work is unacceptable, says the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), … Read More
23 September Metalworking fluids are still causing ill health Earlier this year, the HSE announced that it would be targeting organisations that use metalworking fluid (MWF) for inspection. Although this case predates the recent round of enforcement visits, it does support the narrative. Lantern Engineering Ltd was sentenced for health breaches after workers were exposed to metalworking fluid (MWF). MWF is hazardous to health, … Read More
9 August 15 years jail sentence for transport boss let’s delve into the importance of health and safety for transport companies by examining a case involving a transport boss.Two men died when their car was hit by a 30-tonne HGV with faulty brakes – transport boss been jailed for 15 years and a driver sentenced to six years Michael Holgate was convicted of gross negligence … Read More
6 August Workplace Top Temperatures This summer has been one of the hottest, with some new records being set across the UK. The TUC is calling for a legal duty on employers to protect workers from heat-related risk after the Met Office issued its first-ever extreme heat warning in July 2021. Mika Minio-Paluello (who is the Policy Officer for Climate … Read More
5 August Workplace Transport – Death of a Driver (while he was a Pedestrian) Death of a Driver Whilst standing on open ground at the rear of the trailer of his articulated vehicle, the driver KA was struck by a wheeled shovel loader operating in the yard at their Auchinleck premises in Scotland, Ayr Sheriff Court heard. Failure to Assess the Risks and to implement Control Measures The investigation … Read More