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.
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.
The Emergency Services Show returns to the NEC, Birmingham on 20-21 September 2017. HSM takes a look at what visitors can expect.
Steve Dunning, managing director at Martindale Electric outlines essential solutions to health & safety compliance during the maintenance of plant and equipment.
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.
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.
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.
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 as the latest member of the federation.
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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