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There is a whole variety of personal protective equipment (PPE) that should be used and worn appropriately by different trades. From ‘hot works’ to freezing environments, it is important to have safe, durable gear appropriate for the workplace. There are significant differences, for example working in agriculture compared to in radiation or construction industries. Protective shades vary for different welding, cutting and brazing operations in the general industry and the construction industry has separate requirements for filter lens protective [...]

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Building regulations are so important when designing a property, and in the UK there are very specific requirements that ensure people are kept safe. That’s why Document K was created as part of building regulations, and this specific set of regulations protects staff and visitors to your property from falling, collisions, or impact. So how can you ensure you are compliant with Document K? Here’s a basic guide to what the document includes and what you need to do. Stairs Stairs [...]

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A clean orderly house isn’t just a nice convenience; it’s a necessity for maintaining your health, both mentally and physically. Time Magazine published a study conducted by associate professor Nicole Keith at Indiana University’s Department of Physical Activity that found a direct correlation between a clean home and healthy inhabitants. Study participants consisted of 998 African Americans who were 49 to 65 years of age. This demographic has a high risk of heart disease. Researchers compared the cleanliness of the [...]

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As the world becomes more connected, failing to get your business in line with the latest developments can prove a costly error, with many other suitors likely waiting in the wings to snap up an audience you could have had but just couldn’t reach out to. With the prevalence of tools now available right at your fingertips, it is getting progressively easier to reach international audiences. With content, language is obviously an excellent place to start. Compared to non-English speakers, [...]

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At one stage, the world belonged to the baby boomers; now they increasingly have to compete with the millennials – the generation born after 1985 – that have very different ideas about how the world and the office should be run. This is a generation unwilling to be shaped to fit in, one which instead seeks to shape its surroundings. It’s a generation comfortable with change, sociable yet competitive, ambitious yet keen to work more ethically and give something [...]

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Setting up a fashion brand is many people’s dream, but if you have the right skills and the right attitude, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to make a success of it. Do you love fashion enough to work long hours and have late nights? Do you have tailoring skills or a business partner who can translate your ideas into workable designs? Can you get other people excited about your ideas? If the answer to all these [...]

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Rochdale Metropolitan police has been served with a £13,000 fine plus full costs of £1,317 following an incident that occurred in August 2014 at Springfield Park in Heywood. A child’s fingers were trapped in a gate resulting in two of his left hand fingertips being guillotined by the gate at a park meant for children under 11 years old to play. The result were injuries that will likely affect the child for the rest of his life. According to Health [...]

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Safety within the work environment is an essential thing particularly if your career is listed among what some call ‘hot works’. Hot works are jobs that employ the use of dangerous equipment and generally present a dangerous working environment for the worker. Welding for instance is a hot work that involves the use of a hot oxy/gas equipment and acetylene, other similar jobs include construction jobs, air-arc gouging ad many others. The dangerous working environment can be at times very [...]

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The workplace is full of equipment and other factors that are dangerous to workers. It is therefore important to know the things, equipment or processes that can harm you. This is called a risk assessment. In definition a risk assessment is a careful examination of what, in your work, could cause harm to people, so that you can weigh up whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. A risk assessment is thus a [...]

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Road safety is a topic that most of us shrug off as boring or as common sense. However the case for re-education on road safety is very strong, particularly at this point in time. Statistics say that road crashes account for 1.3 million deaths all over the world every year. If you break this down this result to 3500 deaths daily, 150 every hour and up to three deaths on the road every hour. This number is set to [...]

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