Firms urged to pull the plug on £30m of wasted electrical sa ...
Unnecessary electrical safety tests cost office-based businesses an estimated £30 million a year. It’s a myth that every portable electrical appliance in the workplace needs to be tested once a year – and what’s more it’s a costly one. Misleading advi ...
Young people, risk and an exciting education
A blog from the HSE that we think is a powerful message to keep those crazy health and safety people at bay! Source: HSE, Young people, risk and an exciting education. Rarely a day goes by when we don’t read or hear about a serious health and safety issue in the news. ...
Government sets out new National Minimum Wage rates
The Government has accepted the Low Pay Commission’s (LPC) recommendations for this year’s National Minimum Wage (NMW) rates. The following rates will come into effect on 1 October 2012: The adult rate (which applies to those aged 21 and over) will increase by 11p from £6.08 ...
THE NEW HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENT TEST
The CITB – ConstructionSkills Health, safety and environment test helps to raise standards across the industry. It ensures that workers have a minimum level of health, safety and environmental awareness before going on site. From 2 April 2012, the CITB – ConstructionSkills ...
£40bn public construction pipeline updated
The Government has updated the construction pipeline last published in November 2011 alongside the National Infrastructure Plan and the infrastructure investment pipeline. The Government funded construction pipeline published today includes over 600 projects and around £40bn ...
Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 came into force on 6 April 2012, updating previous asbestos regulations to take account of the European Commission’s view that the UK had not fully implemented the EU Directive on exposure to asbestos (Directive 2009/148/EC). ...
28th April 2012: World Day for Safety and Health at Work hig ...
On 28th April, thousands of representatives of governments, employers and workers celebrate the World Day for Safety and Health at Work, an annual event initiated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to promote safe, healthy and decent work. The topic of this year ...
CITB Site Managers Safety Training Scheme held at Cafe Royal ...
Site managers working for Euromarmi, Red & Blue, Poliform and HS Dev on the Cafe Royal project for Mace who attended the approved CITB 5 day site managers safety training scheme have successfully passed , each scoring 100% in their exams! A reflection of the quality of ...
OiRA, the Online Interactive Risk Assessment project.eu
OiRA is a European initiative lead by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work to develop an easy-to-use and cost-free web application to create online risk assessment tools. This OiRA web application helps Sectoral Social Partners (employers’ and employees ...
RIDDOR 1995 Changes on 6 April 2012
As of 6 April 2012, RIDDOR’s over-three-day injury reporting requirement has changed. The trigger point has increased from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened). Incapacitation means that the worker is absen ...
