Growth of networked electronic controls is a safety issue. No self regarding health and safety professional would disregard hazard evaluations and systems for Asbestos, work at height or manual handling; yet I’ll wager that the only risk assessment you have for IT is a display screen assessment.
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New style COSHH hazard labeling From this month, another phase of the EU Classification Labelling and Packaging of Substances and Mixtures Regulation (CLP) starts. All chemicals created from June must be packaged with the new red diamond cautioning signs Outlined on the accompanying pages. For chemical blends,
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Howarth Timber, the UK’s biggest privately owned timber organization, has been requested to pay more than £100,000 in fines and expenses after a worker died when he fell through a delicate rooftop at one of the organization’s sites. The roofer Howarth employed to fix a leak has
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Where Do You Rank In The Health & Safety Top 500 Leaderboard? The Health and Safety Industry Top 500 Leaderboard is curated and managed by David Cant @DavidGCant, and published by Veritas Consulting Safety Services Ltd, in association with PPE.org – @PPEORG The Leaderboard shows rankings
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Health & Safety Myth Busters Panel Having recently come across a section on the HSE website called Health & Safety Myth Busters it gave us here at Seguro a new insight into how some people blatantly use Heath & Safety as a way to get out of doing something they don’t want
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In May 2015 the HSE reported on 44 cases involving companies that were found negligent resulting in average fines of £10k per company. The latest case being a property company in Lancashire who have been fined £14,400 plus full HSE prosecution costs of £1,276 and a victim
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