Highway Code Updated
January 26, 2019The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) recently announced that the Highway code has been updated to provide more detailed advice on safely using remote control parking and motorway as...
Happy Birthday Safety Squirrel
January 26, 2019The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) recently announced that their road safety mascot, Tufty, has reached his 65th birthday. Originally created in 1953 Tufty has helped to...
Food Manufacturing Inspection Initiative Launched
January 26, 2019The HSE have announced that between January and March 2019 their inspectors will be targeting food manufactures. There are two particular issues that inspectors will be concentrating on. The f...
Fitness To Operate Construction Plant
January 26, 2019There are rules that govern the medical standards people must be able to meet in order to be permitted to drive motor vehicles on the road. Guidance on these is produced by the Driver and Vehi...
Feeling Old And ‘Tyred’
January 26, 2019There is concern that as vehicle tyres age they may develop hidden defects and potentially deteriorate to an unsafe condition. The Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) recently announced...
Farm Inspection Initiative
January 26, 2019The HSE have announced that their programme of inspections this year will look at safety standards on farms. In particular inspectors will be looking at machinery, falls from height, children ...
Controlling The Hazards of Welding Fume
January 26, 2019In 2015 BOHS, the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, in conjunction with the HSE and a number of other bodies launched an initiative called Breath Freely. This initiative aims to ...
Driverless Vehicle Consultation
January 26, 2019As technology develops and fully automated vehicles become closer to being a reality in vehicle fleets and on the roads there are a number of issues that need to be resolved. As part of a thre...
Cranes And Trains: New Guidance Issued
January 26, 2019In association with Network Rail the Construction Plant Association (CPA) has launched a new Good Practice Guide covering Requirements for Mobile Cranes Alongside Railways Controlled by Networ...
Carbon Steel Safety Alert
January 26, 2019Following investigations into an incident in the USE in 2010 where the shell of a heat exchanger ruptured catastrophically, killing seven workers, the HSE have issued a safety alert aimed at t...
Building A Safer Future
January 26, 2019Following the Grenfell Tower fire the government launched an independent review of building regulations and fire safety. The final report of this review was published in May 2018, this made 53...
Liability For Undisclosed Disabilities?
January 26, 2019If an employee fails to disclose their disability to you, can they later claim that they’ve been directly discriminated against? Mr Mutombo-Mpania (M) applied for a job with Angard (A), a fi...
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