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Fee for Intervention | Exploring the cost of health and safety breaches in 2024

16th April 2024 No Comments

BLOG It’s a well-known fact that poor health and safety practices cost businesses money. And with the HSE recently announcing yet another Fee for Intervention (FFI) hike,

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Using the Hierarchy of Controls to make sensible safety decisions

10th March 2022 No Comments

BLOG To create a safe working environment, employers are required to identify the main risks present within their organisation and the measures needed to manage

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Will health and safety change after Brexit?

30th November 2020 No Comments

BLOG The UK is due to complete its divorce from the EU when the transition period ends on 31 December 2020. New rules for business

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Health and safety fines | 5 times employers fell short in March 2020

30th March 2020 No Comments

While businesses’ health and safety efforts have been dominated by COVID-19 in recent weeks, March 2020 also saw a number of unrelated fines handed to

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Working with hazardous substances | What employers need to know about COSHH

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Blog Depending on your industry, you may have come across the COSHH Regulations in discussion around health and safety. But what exactly do they cover,

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COSHH and contractors | Court highlights importance of safe pool maintenance

4th October 2019 No Comments

Chemical treatment of pool water is essential in ensuring pool users and workers are not exposed to risks of infection from contamination of the water

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HOSPITALITY AND LEISURE | Common health and safety risks and how to reduce them

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Blog Employers are required to identify the hazards present in their workplace and to take reasonable steps to control the risks arising from those hazards.

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Chemical safety | Company fined after teenage apprentice overcome by killer fumes

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A wheel refurbishment company has been sentenced after a 16-year-old apprentice was overcome by vapours from chemicals used to strip and clean alloy wheels. The

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Health and safety duties | Employers’ responsibilities to volunteers and the public

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The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 (HSWA) sets out the general health and safety duties employers have toward their employees. It also

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2018 | Health and Safety Review

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The past year has again been something of a mixed bag for occupational Health & Safety risk management. We take a look back at some

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