Continuing support for the CDP
HSM examines the Construction Dust Partnership (CDP), an industry collaboration with direct involvement from many organisations, including the HSE and a number of commercial supporters.
Driving safety
Stewart Gosling of RDD, UK distributor of Mitsubishi, explains why safety is so important and a few of the measures that this award-winning manufacturer has done to enhance safety while optimising productivity.
Why telematics can never replace LGV driver training
Laura Nelson, managing director, RTITB (formerly the Road Transport Industry Training Board), explains why in-cab technology is no replacement for LGV Driver Training and how the two should be used to complement each other.
Three steps to keeping your employees on the road
Even if you have just one employee driving a vehicle on company time for business use, as a responsible employer you have Duty of Care and legal obligations. Carlos Montero, FleetEurope’s commercial director, outlines his simple approach for staying compliant and, importantly, legal for both company car and grey fleet drivers.
Fire safety: Making compliance easy
A recent fire which broke out on the British Airways flight in Las Vegas caused utter ‘pandemonium,’ as passengers evacuated. Reports claim as many as 13 people were injured and amid the panic, hysterical passengers trampled on a woman’s head as they desperately headed for escape. Natalie Patrick, marketing administrator at Fireco says this terrifying event poses a question – do you know what to do when there is a fire?
“Occupational hearing loss is preventable” says BSIF
The increasing awareness of the importance of preventing occupational hearing loss is clear with 49 exhibitors at A+A this year showing a total of 98 hearing protection products.
Putting a stop to noise and vibration
Smaller assembly tools, such as nutrunners, pose just as great a health and safety risk as hammer tools when it comes to industrial noise and vibration, says Bill Harrison, technical manager at calibration specialist Trescal UK.
The law on construction site fire alarms
Fire can break out on most construction sites and according the insurance industry there are 104,000 each year. Not only can people be injured or worse, but fires can also be financially devastating to the firms involved. Paul Henson, sales & marketing director at Ramtech Electronics, offers a guide to the legislative background and standardised requirements for fire alarm systems used on construction sites.
Protecting the people behind the headlines
Dr Karen McDonnell, occupational health and safety policy adviser at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), discusses the devastation behind the headlines.
Unacceptable statistics in the manufacturing sector
On average two workers are injured every day in the manufacturing sector. That means in the last year alone 784 people were injured, with the majority (465) involving moving machinery. Bryan Richards, managing partner and chartered safety and health practitioner at Arinite says that for an industry that directly employs 8.5% of the workforce and 15% of the UK’s gross domestic product this is unacceptable, and expensive: 4.7 million working days were lost in 2013/2014 due to injury. So what can b
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