Tag Archives: Health and Safety

Power tools in the workplace can be the cause of many a bad nights sleep for managers or supervisors. With certain power tools able to cause significant and life changing injuries, it is imperative that adequate safety measures are put in place.

This week we are looking at both the hazards and how you can ensure the safe handling of hand tools in your workplace. Simple hand tools can cause injury through error, misuse or mechanical failure.

Work equipment safety measures. The use of the phrase ‘work equipment’ is in keeping with the definition used in the Provision and Use of Work Equipment Regulations 1998 (PUWER)

There are many different types of forklift trucks, but the majority all share a range of common hazards and safety measures. Today, we are going to look at the safety measures and what you can do to reduce the chance of an accident occurring on your site.

Today we are looking at how to avoid or minimise manual handling risks. The law requires that employers avoid manual handling wherever possible.

With the large explosion that rocked Beirut in Lebanon recently, the storage of dangerous substances is quite rightly at the forefront of many peoples attention right now. Nobody wants to see anything like this happen again.

With stress & mental health vitally important right now, we have put together the below stress guidance notes to help you navigate the complexities that most organisation’s are currently facing. Stress is not a disease, but a natural reaction to pressure.

We all want to keep our workplace and our staff safe and clean right now. With that in mind the HSE have put out the following very useful information that we follow and will be instilling in all of our clients. We highly recommend that you also follow this, if you arent already.

Use of Display Screen Equipment (DSE) or computers and keyboards is a common workplace activity that has several associated ill-health issues. These include:

Today we are looking at the issue of driving a vehicle on the public highway for work, in particular a company car. Road safety should be treated as simply another duty of a businesses health & safety.