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Fall protection and CDM: The vital questions you need to ask

Construction Design and Management (CDM) regulations can often be viewed as little more than a ‘tick box exercise’. Fall protection specialist MSA Safety warns Chris Shaw that this attitude must change.

With NHS Protect closing, how can the NHS help protect its lone workers now?

The closure of NHS Protect means that the NHS no longer has a central body charged with looking after its lone workers. With the NHS and others looking to deliver care closer to home as part of the Five Year Forward View, where does this leave NHS trusts and its mobile workforce? Tom Morton of Safe Shores Monitoring sets out what the future could look like for lone workers in health and care.

Safety and protection high on the agenda

The Emergency Services Show returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 20-21 September 2017. HSM takes a look at what visitors can expect.

MARTINDALE ELECTRIC OUTLINES ESSENTIAL SOLUTIONS TO HEALTH & SAFETY COMPLIANCE DURING THE MAINTENANCE OF PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

Steve Dunning, managing director at Martindale Electric outlines essential solutions to health & safety compliance during the maintenance of plant and equipment.

How to ensure everyone is evacuated safely during a security threat

With any emergency, it’s about getting everyone out of a building safely during evacuation as managing director at Evac+Chair International, Gerard Wallace, explains.

Working at height – where are we now?

By definition, working at height refers to any task that takes place in a location from which a person could fall and be injured. As Amanda Bowles, HSEQ advisor at HSS Hire explains, there are many safety hazards involved in this kind of work.

Product quality and market surveillance of PPE in the UK

As the UK Safety market is aware the British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) and its membership are dedicated to ensuring that the UK workforce receives the protection, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is designed to deliver.

In the spotlight with John Gill

Each issue, we put the spotlight on PPE and worker safety & health by asking BSIF members to share their thoughts and insight. This issue, we talk to John Gill, managing director at uvex Safety UK and chairman of the BSIF.

BSIF welcomes Dunlop protective footwear

BSIF welcomes Dunlop Protective Footwear as the latest member of the federation.

Joining together to ‘raise the bar’

A number of companies who specialise in the installation of Permanent Fall Protection Systems (PFPS), which protect those who work at height, have come together to define and champion the minimum levels of competency and specialist knowledge they feel their customers deserve, and have a right to expect.

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