OHSAS 18001Health and Safety

What is OHSAS 18001 The #OHSAS 18001 standard (may also be mistakenly referred to as ISO 18001) is internationally accepted as a method of assessing and auditing occupational health and safety management systems. Developed by leading trade and international standards...

How do I Dispose of My Chemicals?

How do I get rid of my chemicals / #Hazardous Waste? If you are stuck with un-wanted chemicals and #hazardous wastes and want to get rid of them there are a number of things you should consider and do. Where possible segregate and store each chemical / #hazardous...

Air Monitoring

Air Monitoring Under the Control Of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations it is essential to know what workplace exposure levels (WEL) the workforce is being exposed to. When do you need to monitor? Monitoring is appropriate: when you need to show compliance with...

Fire Risk Assessments

#Fire Risk Assessment The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 was introduced to replace the Fire Precautions Act 1961 and the Fire Precautions (Workplace) Regulations 1997/1999. The regulations put a requirement on all non domestic premise owners to carry out a...

Working overtime or shifts?

Have you thought about First Aid Cover? Working additional shifts? Whilst it is always welcomed that additional shifts generally mean increased orders and customer demands some of the basic thinking goes out of the window. When additional work is necessary when it...

Should I report it?

Safety Walks How often do you walk around your business and see obvious health and safety issues? Do you do anything about it? Do you ever walk past a dangerous activity and ignore it ? What about visits to your customers or suppliers and notice poor health and safety...

Free Asbestos Awareness Training

Construction small businesses encouraged to attend asbestos awareness safety event | Media centre - HSE Construction small businesses encouraged to attend asbestos awareness safety event Free workshops are being run across Lancashire to help small businesses better...

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