Construction sites across the midlands will come under scrutiny from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) this month as part of a national push to reduce death, injury and ill health within the industry with refurbishment projects being particularly targeted as the Fee for Intervention scheme bites hard on construction. Inspectors from the HSE will…
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On October 1st 2013 changes will be introduced to the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR). These changes are intended to simplify the mandatory reporting of workplace injuries for businesses, while ensuring that the data collected gives an accurate and useful picture of workplace incidents. These changes are directly linked to a…
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Our work covers not just health and safety consultancy but also environmental consultancy and one thing which clients should be aware of is the PICR (Pollution Incident Cost Recovery) Scheme. Its really very similar to the HSE Fee For Intervention scheme, albeit at a lower fee per hour of £84 rather than £124. You should…
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Let’s be honest, most people feel that health and safety has become something of a burden and that less regulation or self regulation could be a workable solution seeing the end of HSE. You might also argue that housebuilding is one area where regulation is strict and the standards are consistently high. What you don’t…
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The coalition have long promised to tame the health and safety monster. As we have previously reported, most of this has been huff and bluster about removing a third of regulations and scrapping various requirements. The overall impact on business has been little or no change. We now have the first of the revised Approved…
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As part of the support services we provide to our clients we often complete their fire risk assessment whilst we are at site. This is an area which is otherwise often neglected by clients both large and small and one which does deserve some attention. The main issue which most clients will miss is perhaps…
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We are only too aware of the reluctance of many businesses to put in place guarding to the chucks and spindles of pillar drills. We also insist that smaller pillar drills are fixed to the floor to prevent toppling in use (or at least to a large metal plate for smaller works and occasional use).…
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According to the Forum for Private Business “Sweeping changes” to health and safety laws due to take effect in October should, we are told, see a significant drop in the time and costs spent by smaller business in ensuring they remain compliant with health and safety legislation. The FPB, whose research of 4000 of its…
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Following on from the recent sminar we completed with the Southwest WWT and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) I thought I would share with those who couldn’t be there some video from our presentation on working at height. The keynote speaker on the day was Jason Anker. To say his talk contained a powerful…
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As an occupational hygienist I did realise that, as a business person with a lot of hats to wear it’s entirely feasible that you didn’t. If I was a new HSE Inspector tasked with fining people for material breaches of health and safety regulation then Regulation 11 of COSHH is exactly where I would start…
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