It may be time to review your health & safety policies and set in place the correct measures following the announcement that the HSE are increasing their FFI hourly rate from £129 to £154 with effect from the 6th April 2019. This has been the second increase since the scheme was introduced in 2012, starting…
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From the provision of health and safety policies, risk assessments/method statements and toolbox talks to the delivery of Safety~net contracts, Outsource Safety can hold your hand through the mine field of health & safety requirements and procedures, ensuring you are covered for most eventualities. Communication of risk to the workforce in the form of training…
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Scarily many lives have been lost over the years by incorrect use of hot works application. The need to understand how to conduct a dynamic risk assessment when dealing with potentially flammable goods is crucial. Failure to do so can result in a tragic outcome, as occurred in the following case. Recently a commercial vehicle…
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At Outsource we specialise in making sense of safety, allowing our clients to receive sensible and proportional advice on how to make their business activity as safe as possible. The critical process of implementing a risk assessment and safe system of work was clearly disregarded when two employees suffered serious injuries after an oxygen cylinder…
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There’s a huge amount being written about respirable crystalline silica of late. We’ve been speaking about this for the past 22 years and have completed many monitoring and sampling programs for respirable crystalline silica (RCS) since our consultancy first started back in the early 90’s and we think you need to know more about what’s expected of…
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HSE have updated their guidance on selecting and using dust masks and can provide a helpful card which can then assist your staff in ensuring they get a good fit and the protection they need against dust. Many of us use dust masks everyday and it’s worth a recap on what you should expect of…
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We’ve been talking about ticks and the risks of Lyme disease for years through this blog and on the talks which we provide for our Safety~net clients across the UK. At the weekend we came across the video below which might be useful for toolbox talks to remind your staff who could be exposed to…
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Join me on one of our visits to industrial and construction sites around the country and you’ll see people wearing in-ear hearing protection badly. Some might as well not be wearing it at all. We’ll walk past even when we’re completing noise monitoring for a client and look across to see a friendly face smiling…
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I have to say this is an area which I can’t help but find fascinating: hearing loss and ototoxic substances. Ototoxic substances are those which can lead to hearing loss even without noise exposure, combine them with the noise exposure which we see in industry and construction and you have a combination which might explain…
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We’ve monitored for soft and hardwood dust exposures for over 20 years now, carrying out dust monitoring in various workshops and factories across the country. We think its unlikely you’ll be aware that hardwood dust levels will be reduced in line with a European Directive (the EU Carcinogen and Mutagens Directive (2017/2398). In compliance with…
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