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UK Health and Safety Week 2015 is Launched Everyone knows that it is all too easy to sideline the issue of Health and Safety so the announcement of this year’s UK Health and Safety Week at a meeting earlier this month has been widely welcomed. The focus this year will be Protecting Worker Health. The… Read more »

Free health and safety conference in Glasgow this April There is to be a free health and safety conference staged by the British Safety Council at the Health and Safety Scotland exhibition in Glasgow, on the 22 and 23 of April. This will be an excellent opportunity for Scottish business owners to find out more… Read more »

Health and safety can sometimes get a bad press and this is unfortunate, because without the legislation in place and the prominence it gets in training courses, the already high number of deaths and serious injuries in the workplace would be much higher still. Following guidance for every dangerous activity will help keep you safe,… Read more »

RoSPA Health and Safety Awards 2014 celebrate safety in the workplace Sometimes it seems that the only news about health and safety is doom and gloom so it is nice sometimes to be able to celebrate the ‘good guys’ whose attention to health and safety have won them awards from the Royal Society for the… Read more »

New Health and Safety Reforms in the Pipeline Like many other areas of everyday life, health and safety courses is bogged down in red tape, making it very difficult sometimes for people who think they have spotted an infringement of the law to be either sure of their facts or clear in where to go… Read more »

Cuts in health and safety services will cost lives The TUC have alerted people through a recent publication – Toxic, Corrosive and Hazardous: the government’s record on health and safety – to the shocking reduction in Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) inspections. Legislation changes have allowed for fewer inspection visits to take place and have… Read more »

RoSPA to launch new health and safety learning hub The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) have added a series of special workshops alongside their annual awards ceremony this year, covering key topics such as worker involvement, accident investigation and legal updates. The awards ceremony – to be held this year at the… Read more »

Yes you do! Whether your organisation is a large or small employer, or you are self-employed you need to ensure that you’re up to date with the way in which to identify any hazards and control any risks that are present in your place of work.