Your extra responsibilities for employee wellbeing While the responsibility for health and safety in your workplace falls on all shoulders – including your employees – as an employer you have a ‘duty of care’ toward you employees and visitors. This principle can be used to establish fault where firms are sued for workplace injuries, providing […]
Health and safety is a serious issue As health and safety consultants and experts in our field, it’s essential that we remain up to date with what’s happening in the market. Laws and regulations change. Best practices are continually evolving. Our monthly Health and Safety News Roundup is our pick of the news items and […]
Avoid costly accidents with a COSHH risk assessment Picture the scene: a worker is doing a job that is undertaken every day in your company. Cleaning. They are using a chemical, which others have always used to do this job. Half an hour later, you find the employee collapsed in a pool of the chemical. […]
Workplace accident prevention strategies to eliminate fatalities The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently published the workplace fatality statistics for 2017/18. These showed an alarming rise to 144 deaths at work for the 12 months to March 2018, compared to 135 deaths in the previous 12-month period to March 2017. That’s almost three deaths per […]
