The working population is the backbone of any country. It is the farmers, construction workers, office workers and many others who make it all happen for the rest of the population. Such people are so crucial for the economy and that is why it is important that they remain healthy at work. However it is a rather sad situation in the UK that health and work are not commonly thought of in the same page. We tend to overlook [...]
A Fleet Risk Audit is defined as the process of gathering work related road safety information and then acting upon it. This means a complete comprehensive operation that covers all the company’s vehicles. This naturally is not as easy as it sounds. However many people are sceptical about the importance of such an audit and unfortunately they do not do it. The process is rather difficult and delicate as it involves maintaining a record that shows or demonstrates how [...]
Working at height can be very dangerous. They contributed to 26% of all the fatal injuries in construction in 2010/2011. It is however notable that these types of injuries are completely preventable and thus every party involved should take steps to make sure that work related injuries are completely eliminated. A place is said to be at height if the person could be injured by falling form it. Also, access and egress to such a place can be classified to [...]
Violating Health and Safety practices in the UK is one of the most serious offences that you can do. This is the same even for contractors that are carrying out construction works. They are supposed to come up with the best safety practices that will minimize chances of accidents occurring in the construction site. Mr. Phillip Affleck, a Cheshire contractor, had to learn this the hard way after he was fined by a UK court for not putting in place [...]
In UK, the number of injuries that re taking place in office jobs is slowly escalating to alarming levels. One may be fooled to think that people working outside of offices are the ones in danger but this is turning out not to be the case. A total of about 10million people work in offices in UK. There is therefore a need to come up with safety measures that will help reduce the chances of accidents occurring in office [...]
Accidents are inevitable at workplaces, and this affects the both the employees who are usually directly involved in the accidents and the employers who cover the medical bills after such incidences. Taking precautions can be a way of significantly reducing such risks and so employers are obliged to take steps that can assist in reducing accidents and enhancing the safety of the employees. First, it is imperative to have an immediate response to an accident to avoid exposing the accident [...]
One can look only read the safety book concerning accidents to realize that crashes at the building places are the primary cause of the high number of hazardous accidents at the job environment.Despite the building sections only pays for 5% of the individuals hurt hospital bill for those severely injured from the crash in the Britain, however, it accounts for 27% of the hazardous accidents to workers which most result from drops. However also other people not working at [...]
Novelty garment of the leg, kitsch stoneware jugs, one more pair slip on shoe and many years this father’s day often come to an end, having this emotion like it was that day when it becomes spring when the groundhog emerges from its hole. On this current year, however, we could leave aside buying cards and gifts and focus on the fathers who are one morning left for work and passed away because of an accident not to be [...]
Doctor Karen McDonnell, CFIOSH, CBiol MIBiol, MIPD, AIMA is finding out the best new and efficient methods to mix different qualities of the best medical practices in achieving the best conditions of health and in solving out work related issues in the UK according to the HSE. Irrespective of what you can ask; whether a cocktail made from a vodka cranberry juice, orange flavored liquor and lime juice or a cocktail of vermouth. With the whisky or a cocktail made [...]
Doing a job at high elevation is still one of the largest causes of accidents and major crashes in UK. Most of the cases involve falls from height and through unfavorable grounds. Taking a job at an altitude means that work if any environment if someone was not careful he or she could drop a distance long enough to cause harm to the body like a drop from a roof that’s not strong. This part shows how workers can [...]
