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Health and safety in education | 5 fines from 2021 and focuses for 2022

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BLOG Written by Scott Crichton on 4 January 2022 Whilst COVID-19 continues to create issues within education – particularly in respect to Omicron and the updated guidance

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Contractors and volunteers | Are you overlooking the health and safety of non-employees?

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BLOG Written on 29 October 2021 When you think about workplace health and safety, your probably think about protecting your workers. However, under Section 3 of

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Highest recent health and safety fines, including record-breaking £6.5m penalty

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BLOG Written on 31 August 2021 Label photo created by ededchechine – www.freepik.com We recently learned that a total of 142 workers were killed at work

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HSE statistics 2020/21 | More fatalities despite fewer people working?

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BLOG Written by Nick Wilson on 16 July 2021 Few things drive home the importance of workplace health and safety like the HSE’s annual fatality

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BLOG The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been at the heart of the government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak. Over the last year, its

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