A friend of mine recently took a holiday overseas in an African country, where perhaps they take the health and safety in construction not as seriously as we do in this country. Whilst there are obvious cost benefits to this route actually the risk to the workers is immense and it left me thinking, Read more »
Dealing with stress in the workplace
According to this article, Stress has jumped to the top of the sickness chart for long term absences
Arguably the one thing we know about stress is that we don’t know much about it. Or to be more specific, we don’t know the real impact of stress on workers – or anyone else for that matter. We do know what people claim to be stress, or stress-related issues. We also know that the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) treats stress very seriously. We know that employers have a legal duty to assess it and manage it’s adverse health effects on employees, but what are those effects? Read more »
Health and Safety in Schools, has it gone one step too far?
Schools ban girls from wearing skirts over fears sex attacks
Following in the wake of the ludicrous decision by the authorities at Wimbledon to close Henman Hill because of slippery grass, comes another knee-jerk reaction guaranteed once again to bring ‘Elf & Safety’ into disrepute, this involves the school children that were putting themselves ‘at risk’ for wearing skirts that are too short (full article here) Read more »
In the news recently, Father and son car dealers fined over skylight fall
In the news last month was an article about an incident where a worker fell through a skylight and how the company were failing to ensure the safety of their workers. Whilst there was absolutely no intent to hurt any of the workers, Read more »
Classroom Risk Assessment
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Where the welfare of children are concerned, especially when they are supposed to be in a completely secure environment, any help given to protect them and keep them safe seems to me to be a jolly good move. Health and safety in schools is one of our specialist areas so we were delighted to read that the classroom risk assessment is being renamed as a ‘classroom checklist’. By providing a simple list that you can just quickly check against removes all the ‘pomp’ of health and safety in an environment that actually requires it the most where our children are concerned, as they can get hurt in a ‘normal’ classroom environment.
