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• Smoke-Free Regulations and Workplace Health and Safety

  31/10/2024
  It is against the law to smoke in the workplace in England...

• RAAC – What You Need to Know

  20/10/2023
  RAAC (reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete) dominated the news at the end of the summer, with countless schools forced to remain closed after the holidays due to safety concerns...

• Workplace Facilities: An Employer’s Guide

  20/10/2022
  Health and safety law requires employers to provide certain welfare facilities, together with a working environment that is safe and healthy for all employees, including those with disabilities...

• Workplace Ventilation: An Employer’s Legal Duties

  13/04/2022
  All employers have a duty to ensure there is adequate ventilation throughout the enclosed areas of their workplaces...

• How to ‘Work Right’ During the Coronavirus Pandemic with Help from the HSE

  17/10/2020
  Recently launched by the Health and Safety Executive, the Work Right campaign has the goal of getting businesses thinking carefully about health and safety on an individual basis...

• Health and Safety: It’s EVERYONE’S Responsibility

  18/01/2016
  We read an interesting blog recently on the Health and Safety Executive website...

• Waste Unloading: Are Your Staff Safe?

  19/08/2015
  Companies with warehouses will generally produce significant quantities of waste, despite best efforts to create a waste-free environment...

• New figures published for workplace ill health and injury

  01/11/2012
  Figures published today show slight falls in a number of key areas of workplace ill-health and injury...

• 'Low risk' premises to receive far fewer inspections

  01/07/2011
  Unnecessary health and safety inspections of shops and offices are to be cut by a third...