• PAT Testing: All Your Questions Answered

    by  • October 10, 2014 • Health and Safety Advice • 0 Comments

    What is PAT Testing? All portable electrical appliances are exposed to potential damage during usage; this damage could cause the equipment to become dangerous to the user if gone unchecked. Portable appliance testing (PAT testing) is the examination carried out on electrical appliances to ensure they follow health and safety regulations and will not...

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    New Farming Safety Initiative Launched

    by  • October 1, 2013 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Farming can be one of the most hazardous industries to work in – it only makes up 1.8% of the workforce but 19% of the fatal injuries reported per year – therefore health and safety is of particular importance for farms.  Furthermore the rate of illness in farming is significantly higher than in other...

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    Leave it to the professionals: DIY home improvement not the way forward

    by  • September 25, 2013 • Health and Safety, Health and Safety Advice • 0 Comments

    Ever since the recession in 2008, your average citizen has been finding more and more ways to save money. From listing countless unwanted items on eBay to growing their own vegetables and cutting their own hair, the UK public has become obsessed with saving every last penny since the economic downturn. However, there are...

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    Who is Responsible When Dealing with Asbestos?

    by  • August 16, 2013 • Health and Safety • 0 Comments

    Australians have recently become increasingly concerned about the harmful risks of asbestos in their country. A debate has surfaced questioning who it is that should take responsibility for the damaging effect asbestos has had on particular individuals. This debate has arisen as a result of a large infrastructural project taking place; the National Broadband...

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    A Third of Construction Sites in the South West Fail Health and Safety Checks

    by  • April 12, 2013 • Health and Safety News, News • 0 Comments

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) found during a month long inspection initiative that construction sites in Wiltshire, Somerset, Avon and Gloucestershire failed to pass health and safety checks. Inspectors visited the areas as part of a national Health and Safety Executive (HSE) clampdown aimed at reducing death, injury and ill health. A total...

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    How to Make the Safety Talk Appear More Interesting and Appealing to Workers

    by  • March 5, 2013 • Uncategorized • 0 Comments

    Whenever an accident takes place, the great blame game begins. Organisation starts blaming the safety professionals and the safety professionals pass the buck to workers saying that they were not following the safety rule. Since the person who got injured has no say in this serious discussion, the discussion invariably leads to another boring...

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    Safe and Happy with First Aid Training

    by  • January 10, 2013 • Health and Safety • 0 Comments

    First Aid Training Box

    New research conducted by the Red Cross have provided some surprising results. Not only do we feel safer after undergoing first-aid training, 85 % of us also feel happier. The Red Cross ‘Big Red Survey’ was conducted between April and May in 2012 in the UK. They asked people taking part in their first-aid...

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