The 3 Reasons Not To Follow Safety Rules

The 3 Reasons Not To Follow Safety Rules There are 3 times when we are less likely to follow safety rules. These are: 1. When we see other people break the rules and getting away with it. (Monkey see, Monkey do.) 2. When our managers hold employees accountable and...

Improving Safety In Your Workplace

Improving Safety In Your Workplace   I wrote earlier about reward bonuses as a means for improving and motivating leadership in safety. Leadership is often used as the example on how to improve safety – because it is. Without the support of the boss, or senior...

Health and Safety Act

Health and Safety Act   As an employer, you are responsible for the inactions or actions of your employees that cause harm to anyone. This includes fellow workers, visitors to the workplace or members of the public going about their business....

Health and Safety Act and Corporate Manslaughter

Health and Safety Act and Corporate Manslaughter In 2007 the UK bought in the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 which that allows them to prosecute an organisation for killing employers. This was introduced because of difficulties in holding a...

Fall Protection to Improve Safety

Safety at heights Recently I saw a worker working on the top of a pool’s roof erecting scaffolding for a paint job. He was holding the pole horizontally and reaching out over the lip of the roof and trying to bang on the pole, while holding it like a tight rope...