Archive for June, 2010
30/06/2010
Do you use a table saw – you’ll love this!!!!!
For those of you who use a table saw, you will find this fascinating. You are going to enjoy this one and say ouch!! Watch all of it! What an invention – lets hope to see it in a few years! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1
29/06/2010
Are your maintenance practices all they should be?
Maintenance is integral to running a safe and reliable operation; good planning and having the right skills and tools to do the job minimises the risk to workers and the public in any task from repairing a gas main to fixing a roof. That’s the message behind a new European initiative launched in Britain this [...]
28/06/2010
£26k fine for failure to guard machinery
A factory in Ashton-under-Lyme has been fined £26,000 after one of its workers suffered major injuries when he became trapped in rotating machinery. The employee was pulled into a metal-shaping machine when his overalls became entangled; he one finger on his right hand and badly injured another; he suffered a dozen broken ribs, a cracked [...]
24/06/2010
Workplace absence is costing UK businesses £100 billion a year
Do you know what sickness absence is cost your business? Poor health & well being of your staff costs. the annual costs of sickness absence in the UK are estimated to be over £100 billion the average cost of absence per employee is £692 per year on average, there are 7.4 days lost per employee [...]
22/06/2010
Too many people use health and safety as an excuse
Too many people use health and safety as an excuse to hide behind, the Chair of the HSE has warned. Judith Hackitt made the comments in a letter to Lord Young welcoming his review and offering to help gather evidence for his inquiry. The PM has appointed Lord Young to lead a review of health [...]
21/06/2010
Mock Courtroom Trials…..from the WWT Team
The South Yorkshire & Humberside Working Well TogetherGroup are running a series of Mock Trials during the autumn; the court will be sitting in the South Yorkshire & Humber Magistrates’ Mock Courts for: HSE V DGY Scaffolding Ltd & HSE V Phil Wood (Managing Director) DGY Scaffolding Ltd* On 16th September 2010 at Pontefract 14th [...]
14/06/2010
Health and safety laws to be reviewed by government
The government is promising to check the “growth of compensation culture” by setting up a review of health and safety laws. Lord Young, who served as a cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, will lead the Whitehall-wide study. Prime Minister David Cameron has previously said the UK is “saturated” in safety laws and said it was [...]
07/06/2010
Hand Arm Vibration – are you protecting your workers?
Hand-arm vibration syndrome (HAVS) is vibration transmitted from work processes into workers’ hands and arms. It can be caused by operating hand-held power tools, such as road breakers, and hand-guided equipment, such as powered lawnmowers, or by holding materials being processed by machines, such as pedestal grinders. HAVS is serious and disabling, and nearly 2 [...]
04/06/2010
RANT OF THE DAY
It deeply saddens me, that after 14 years serving as a committed safety practitioner, that I’ve had to write a risk assessment today for ……..serving hot drinks!!!! This goes against all my principles but I had to help a Client out as (you’ve guessed it) it was an insurance requirement Come on Insurers – this [...]
04/06/2010
Traffic management on construction sites – Are you doing enough?
The HSE has just launched new guidance on traffic management on construction sites. It is estimated about 7 workers die each year as a result of accidents involving vehicles or mobile plant on construction sites; a further 93 are seriously injured. Accidents occur from ground works to finishing works and managers, workers, visitors to sites and members [...]
