Latest Health and Safety News

News, views and stories of interest which may help you in your Health and Safety strategy. The archive section is always open to view stories you might have missed. Below is a list of all our current news items, or you can view our past stories by going to our archive section.

Protecting the Public against Killer Businesses!

In 2018 100 members of the public were fatally injured in incidents connected with work.

Ensure that your work does not put the public at risk - and that you don't become a Killer Business!

Lone Working - Out of sight, NOT out of mind

Ensuring the safety of your lone workers

Health & Safety Compliance: have you got what it takes?

Take the confusion out of Health & Safety compliance - and maximise on the site services helping you build your own in-house H&S competency

Tackling Workplace Mental Health Issues

Here we look at the most common cause of Workplace Mental Health issues - and what you, as an employer, can do to address them.

Cutting Costs by Reducing Risks

Health and Safety is a vital issue for all employers to address. It helps to safeguard your employees and keep your business profitable!

The Hidden Costs of Accidents

If the number of reported no-fatal and fatal injuries and incidences of work-related ill-health are in decline then why have costs to business risen so significantly?

Protecting Staff from Workplace Diseases

One person dies of a work-related cancer every hour in the UK - from diseases that are largely predictable and preventable!

So, what action can you take to stop these killer diseases blighting the health of your staff?

Safeguarding your Building

If you are responsible for property, whether occupied by your own business or by someone else, here are some fundamental things to get right to improve the safeguarding of your building.

Keeping your Cool in a Heatwave!

The current heatwave presents major risks to workers.

So it's essential to ensure that adequate provision has been made to protect staff and to check that what is already in place, is working.

Protecting against the threats of Fire & Water

Recently the news has been dominated by stories of tragic deaths caused by Fire and Water (i.e. Legionnaire's disease), much of the focus being on - why did these deaths occur when they were actually avoidable?