Advice & Guides

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

With the UK weather being so unpredictable it prompts that drivers have to be prepared for all weather conditions more especially that winter condition has started. Snow has become a distinctions possibility according to the HSE office January is expected to have temperatures going as low as -270c .Therefore drivers need to be aware of very heavy snow, it is for this reason that we have put together some top myths to give some top winter driving precautions tips [...]