What I have to do

What I have to do

Write a health and safety policy This is where you set out your stall; your commitment to health and safety as a business and a description of who does what, when they do it and how.   Write a risk assessment It’s not as complicated as it sounds, you need to...
My top ten tips to Health and Safety success!

My top ten tips to Health and Safety success!

Welcome to my first blog in what I hope will be the start of a monthly series based on my top ten  Health and Safety tips. If you come on this journey with me you will deal with the majority of your hazards and will have gone a long way to creating a fairly robust...
#productive50

#productive50

#productive50 – What am I on about?   Some of you may have heard about #100happydays which I have been doing on my own Facebook, I’ve actually tried twice and failed miserably and am about to start for the last time, if I don’t do it this time I’m totally...

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...