Helen’s Health & Safety Basics Blog – Intro

After months of being bossed by Miss Bossy Boots, Emma Cooke, to do a Health & Safety blog, and after much thought about what would be a worthy blog rather than the usual Health & Safety moans and groans, I’ve hit on the idea of blogging once a month...

HSE’s Fee for Intervention – 6 Months on

Between a quarter and a third of inspections carried out by the HSE since its cost-recovery scheme came into force in October last year found a material breach of health and safety law, resulting in a fee for intervention (FFI) on the duty-holders involved. A material...

Happy 1st Birthday Myth Buster Challenge Panel

Hip Hip Hooray! This month sees the first birthday of the HSE’s Myth Busting Challenge Panel. The Panel was launched in April 2012 in order to provided a way for anyone (company / organisation / individual), who is told that a decision has been taken in the name of...
Drug and Alcohol Policies for Safety in the Workplace

Drug and Alcohol Policies for Safety in the Workplace

 Over the last few weeks I have been asked about Drug and Alcohol policies for the workplace, whether coincidence of indicative of a rising problem two of our Customers have had instances of finding drugs in the workplace. This is clearly as inappropriate of someone...

Flapjack Farce

We all know food cut into triangles tastes better, sandwiches are a prime example, so when Castle Hill School in Essex decided to ban triangular Flapjacks, we all hoped for a really good reason behind it. The decision came after a boy was hit in the face in the face...