This time a year ago the world watched on as we heard about a new contagious illness in China called Coronavirus, or Covid-19. We were told it came from someone eating a bat from a wet market in Wuhan...Read More
Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) can be present in any building that has been built prior to the year 2000. Domestic owners may not realise their home contains asbestos. ACM can be found in substan...Read More
Health and safety statistics 2020 Published on 4 November 2020, the latest statistics on work-related health and safety in Great Britain include the following key annual figures (2019/20): 1.6 million...Read More
Risk… harm… how do you weigh up what is or isn’t sufficient? Health and safety is a fabulous concept – let’s keep everyone safe, all the time. In reality, there are risks and the potential f...Read More
These key figures for Great Britain over 2017/2018 have been published by the HSE: 144 workers killed at work 1.4 million working people suffering from a work-related illness 71,062 injuries to employ...Read More
In the light of the recent spell of exceptionally hot weather, it is important for both employers and employees to play a responsible role, to ensure everyone remains healthy and able to operate norma...Read More
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has released its annual figures for work-related fatal injuries for 2017/18, as well as the number of people known to have died from the asbestos-related cancer, ...Read More
One construction worker in three has never checked a site construction register before starting work according to new research commissioned by IOSH. An Opinium survey of 500 workers found that 32% of ...Read More
Asbestos training If you do work that might disturb asbestos materials, you are legally required to have the right information, instruction and training. There are three levels of asbestos training av...Read More
28 June 2016 A construction company has been fined £550,000 for the corporate manslaughter of two men who fell through a roadside hoarding and into a site in Euston, north London. Monavon Constructio...Read More
