Oxford Architects Partnership of Oxford was fined £120,000 and ordered to pay £60,000 costs after admitting breaching CDM regulations admitting it had flouted regulations 13 and 14, which require designers to take safety considerations into account. The practice had been working on the Exchange conference centre in Bridgwater, Somerset, when Dan Cairns, an employee of…
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The new accreditation scheme for safety consultants will be officially announced in the next few weeks by the HSE, which will run it in the initial stages. The scheme will be open initially to UK safety consultants only, so in-house health and safety managers, advisors and safety consultants based abroad will, initially, not be eligible…
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Commonly used Health and Safety abbreviations Use the underlined links below to find areas of our site where related services can be offered. If you have questions please call us on 01453 800100 to speak to an experienced safety consultant. These are common terms used by health and safety professionals and enforcement agencies such as…
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Most of us would like to feel that we have identified and managed the risks within our business but we often have nagging doubts about having assessed everything. Most businesses start at the most obvious and work their way down, falls from height, being hit by vehicles, fire and so on. Once these have been…
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You may well have read of the recent embarrassment for the government when the very office which is responsible for fire safety failed its own inspection. The Communities and Local Government building, Eland House, was served with an enforcement notice for a string of failings which were summarised as a lack of understanding of the…
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Summary of common British Standards used in Health and Safety HEAD PROTECTION BS EN 397: Specification for industrial safety helmets. BS EN 812: Specification for industrial bump caps. EYE PROTECTION BS EN 166: Specification for personal eye protection. BS EN 169: Specification for filters used in eye protection for welding etc (braze-welding, arc gouging and…
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C&G Safety & Environmental has been contracted by engineering firm Mabey Bridge to act as CDM Co-ordinator under the Construction (Design and Management Regulations) for the development of a new manufacturing facility at its Chepstow base. The project will make the £70m firm the UK’s biggest manufacturer of towers for wind turbines. The £38m…
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C&G Safety & Environmental has introduced Safety 247, an on-line service for companies who are struggling to manage complex health & safety requirements. It allows companies to put all their training needs, statutory tests, checks and inspections, documents and other details on a web database which will automatically remind them when they need to take…
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C&G Safety & Environmental has been called in to help ensure the safe management of contractors at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital and Hull Women and Childrens Hospital. Facilities management specialist HSG Zander, a European leader in FM, brought us in to help bring in systems for managing contractors at the hospital, update their health and safety…
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Most of us use the services of an insurance company not just for our insurance needs but also to carry out thorough inspections, tests and examinations of the plant, equipment and machinery which we have within the business, typically forklift trucks. In a situation such as this imagine that the insurance inspector identifies that one…
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