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Construction dust, a common byproduct of numerous construction activities, poses significant health risks to workers. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations mandate the protection against risks from hazardous construction dusts, emphasising the…
Before we delve into the specifics of working in confined spaces, let’s define what such spaces are. A confined space is a place that is substantially enclosed, and where serious injury can occur from hazardous…
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 of a risk assessment is…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
