CITB ensures safer plant operations with changes to training and testing
CITB is piloting changes across a series of plant training standards and grants, implemented from 31 July to help standardise plant…
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You are a Company Owner or Director – what are your Health and Safety responsibilities?
Directors in the UK are governed by the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and related regulations. It’s important to note that…
Six companies charged with fire safety offences for blaze which destroyed retirement village
In a highly complex case, six companies have been charged with offences under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 following a…
CSCS and IOSH collaborate to improve data verification measures
The CSCS Labourer card was introduced in 2014 and applicants are required to obtain a Level 1 qualification. The main qualification is…
HSE Site Inspections – Focus on moving and handling materials
HSE inspectors will visit construction sites across England, Scotland and Wales in September and October to check that workers’ health is…
Asbestos and You
Any job, any day of the week, can potentially release lethal asbestos fibres. It’s not like dust – you can’t see, smell, or feel the…
Ensure you are working safely at height
Falls when working at height remain the most common kind of workplace fatality. HSE’s annual fatality statistics reported that there were…
Manual handling at work
As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling in the workplace. Manual handling…
UK Parliament enacts ECITB Levy Order
ECITB’s levy proposals that received the overwhelming backing of industry in November, have been enacted into legislation following…
Company fined after worker left paralysed
A manufacturing company has been fined after a worker became entangled in a machine and has been left paralysed from the chest down. The…