Autism Awareness
Autism Awareness Autism is something that people are born with and which stays with them their whole life. Autism is not an illness in any way or even a disease, it is simply a case…
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
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 on electricity for just about…
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
We are not a million miles from Christmas and all the excesses that it brings and then we enter into the new year, where many a New Year’s Resolution is made and broken. We are…
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
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. In this blog we will…
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…
Ligature Training
Mental health is a very serious topic. Deteriorating Mental Health can manifest itself in many different ways withdrawal and quietness, to anxiety and depression and, unfortunately, suicide. In 2021, according to the Office of National…
What does due diligence mean in food safety?
It is a legal requirement that anyone who produces, distributes or sells any food products must comply with food hygiene regulations. As part of this, being able to demonstrate that you are compliant is very…
Are home workers classed as lone workers?
Home working has become significantly more common since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic and it has now very much become the norm. Some people have elected to stay at home rather than going back…
Basic Life Support
It isn’t something we think about until we really need it, but would you know what to do if you came across someone who had collapsed or who is clearly in medical distress? Those first…
How to spot the signs of dehydration and fix it
Dehydration occurs when you use or lose more fluid than you take in, and your body doesn’t have enough water and other fluids to carry out its normal functions. Or to put it another way,…
Mental Health in the Workplace Training
Mental health has become, rightly so, a very important topic for many businesses. Quite often people confuse mental health with mental illness, but they are fundamentally very different things. In this article we explain this…
What is Legionella?
Legionella is the name given to a family of bacteria which cause severe lung illnesses. These conditions include illnesses such as Pontiac Fever, Lochgoilhead fever and the most common one called Legionnaire’s disease. Legionnaire’s disease…
Concussion Training for Coaches
Anyone who watches or is interested in Rugby will be acutely aware of all the new rules which are aimed at reducing concussion in the sport, from new scrum and tackle laws to head injury…
How Often Should Manual Handling Training Be Carried Out?
Manual handling tasks are the cause of over a third of all workplace injuries according to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Poor manual handling practices cause musculoskeletal injuries and in 2020/2021 around 470,000 workers…
Food Labelling Legislation Changes
Calorie labelling on food packaging has been in place for many years and gives consumers comparable information on how many calories that food contains per serving or 100g. The notable, perhaps, exception has been where…
What are the 4Cs of food safety?
Whether you have been in the food industry for years or just getting started with your culinary career, food safety is vitally important. A simple way to understand and remember the fundamentally important aspects of…
Personal Emergency Evacuation Plan
Evacuating a building in the event of a fire can be tricky and confusing at the best of times. When evacuating people with reduced mobility or mental capacity the evacuation process is even more challenging….
Fire Evacuation Strategy
In every workplace, public place, hospital, care home, school and hopefully a lot of homes, there should be a regularly reviewed Fire Evacuation Plan. This will detail what should happen in the event of a…