Health and Safety Act
Health and Safety ActAs 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. Specifi…
Health and Safety Act and Corporate Manslaughter
Health and Safety Act and Corporate ManslaughterIn 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 difficult…
Fall Protection to Improve Safety
Safety at heightsRecently 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…
Safety with a Paint Brush
Safety with a Paint Brush I found an article on OSH in an art class – that’s right, someone wrote about being safe while painting a picture. Now I have to admit upon reading the title I opened it with a mixture of trepidation – was this going to b…
How Management Can Undermine Safety
I read a really good example on, unfortunately, poor safety management. A truck driver cut his head and reported the incident. The safety manager then decided that the best preventative measure was for all truck drivers to wear safety hats. The de…
How much is investing in health and safety worth?
How much is investing in health and safety worth? The perennial question, especially from the accountants. What they really want to know is will the investment into safety return anything, or is it a pointless cost. So we need to find some way to …
Safety and Hazard Management
Safety and Hazard ManagementOne approach to thinking about safety management is to talk about the control of energy. This can be chemical energy, biological and most often, kinetic energy. That is, energy caused by movement. This category can be f…
Quadbike Safety Update
Quadbike Safety UpdateRecently I wrote a blog on Quadbike Safety however, the Department of Labour have released a new guide on Quadbike Safety.The quadbike safety steps you need to know are summarised here: Before you ride ask yourself whether …
Safety and Working at Heights
Safety and Working at HeightsA distinction is often made between fall heights greater than three metres and those less than three metres. This is mainly due to Regulation 21 of the Health and Safety in Employment Regulations 1995, usually interpre…