productRETAILERS USE radios to deliver a better service to customers by ensuring reliable and instant communications between supervisors, salesfloor staff, stock rooms, warehouses, security and facilities management teams. Radios enable staff to deal with queries more quickly and to reduce customer waiting times. The faster and more efficient the service, the more likely the customer is to return and to recommend the store to others.
productA STUDY into a major cause of hospital acquired infections (HAI) has begun. The work is exploring how contagion bacteria survive even deep cleans with chemical products and is evaluating a novel approach to reduce HAI through the use of probiotic hard surface cleaners.
productKelly Rose, editor of Health and Safety Matters, talks to Tim Turney, Global Marketing Manager at occupational health and workplace hazard monitoring expert Casella, about the use of boundary monitoring to identify potential hazards, ensure compliance and protect workers from health risks.
newsA VEHICLE components manufacturer has been fined after an employee suffered burns to his foot.
newsDB CARGO has been fined £200,000 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act for failing to protect the safety of its workers following an incident at its Dollands Moor freight yard in 2018.
newsWALDEN BUILDERS Ltd has been sentenced after a worker was struck by a heated sheet of tin.
newsMORE THAN half (53 per cent) of Britons believe UK businesses could be doing more to improve the hygiene of their premises and keep people safe from Covid-19, according to a new survey*.
newsNEW RESEARCH from think tank, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), has found the risk of Covid-19 transmission in the workplace remains significant and is being dangerously downplayed by the UK government’s light-touch approach.
productVISUAL TAGGING solutions communicate the latest equipment inspection and status at the point of use and record an audit trail of equipment maintenance, tests and inspections to comply with health and safety legislation.
newsA CONSTRUCTION company has been sentenced after a self-employed ground worker sustained life changing injuries in an incident involving a disc cutter.
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