Food Allergy Awareness
Food Allergy Awareness Food allergies are a growing concern for both consumers and purveyors. A food allergy occurs when the body’s immune system reacts abnormally to certain food proteins. Symptoms can range from mild to…
What is a Risk Assessment?
What is a Risk Assessment? As a fundamental part of any health and safety management system, an assessment of risk is a systematic process of identifying and evaluating potential hazards in the workplace. The purpose…
What does asbestos look like and where is it found?
Asbestos was used in various industries and its use was only totally banned as recently as 1999. Between 1985 and 1999 only white asbestos was allowed to be used as the more hazardous blue and…
What is Asbestos?
Asbestos is a word that quite often elicits some very negative emotions in most people, but what is asbestos? It is a material that needs to be treated with respect as the long-term effects of…
The Basics of Electrical Safety
The Basics of Electrical Safety Electricity is perhaps one of the most important discoveries and is very much the lifeblood of modern society. It is probably fair to say that society is very much reliant…
What are CoSHH responsibilities?
We touched upon what CoSHH is in last month’s article: What is CoSHH, this month we will take a deeper dive into the Regulations and try to summarise what the exact responsibilities are under the…
Is manual handling training a legal requirement?
Manual handling is one of those things that we do every single day and quite often, because the task is so familiar, we don’t even recognise that it is manual handling. When it comes to…
What is CoSHH?
CoSHH is a health and safety Regulation which was first introduced in 1988 with updates in 1994, 1999 and 2002. CoSHH stands for Control of Substances Hazardous to Health. The current Legislation is the Control…
Why First Aid Should Be Top Of your New Year’s Resolutions
Why First Aid Should Be Top Of your New Year’s Resolutions We are not a million miles from Christmas and all the excesses that it brings and then we enter into the new year, where…
How to look after a defibrillator
When it comes to emergency first aid, quick action is always imperative and never more so when it is suspected that someone’s heart has stopped. Did you know that without quick intervention, only around 10%…
How to Treat a Burn
How To Treat A Burn Accidents can happen at any time and quite often the longer term consequences of an accident are entirely dependent on the initial action taken to treat any wounds or injury….
What is ladder safety?
Ladders are used all the time, both at home and at work and they are a fast and convenient way of reaching things that we couldn’t get to without them. Ladders are used for everything…