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HOW DOES YOUR BUSINESS FACE A CRISIS?
May 14, 2021With Business Continuity Awareness Week launching on 17th May 2021, Gordon Stevens MBCI explains the importance of establishing a framework to ensure risks are minimised, and threats that can lead to a disruptive event are recognised. Re...
PIB RISK MANAGEMENT ENHANCES ADVISORY SERVICE WITH HR CONSULTANT APPOINTMENT
May 6, 2021PIB Risk Management is delighted to announce the appointment of Rhiannon Hammond-Jones as HR Consultant. Rhiannon has 20 years’ experience as an HR Practitioner in the health sector, higher education and most recently as a HR Consultan...
UPDATED STANDARD FOR TOWER SCAFFOLDS
April 1, 2021Tower scaffolds can be a useful tool for accessing work at height and preventing falls. Where they are used it is important that the type of tower selected is suitable for the work and erected and dismantled by people who have been train...
UPDATED SAFETY GUIDANCE FOR FARM ATTRACTIONS
April 1, 2021An updated industry code of practice for “Preventing or Controlling Ill Health from Animal Contact at Visitor Attractions” has now been published by Access To Farms (ATF), a group of organisations who work together to improve educati...
ROAD TANKER SAFETY ALERT
April 1, 2021The HSE have issued a safety alert following an incident in April 2020 when the driver of a vehicle carrying nitric acid noticed vapour coming from the tanker barrel in the area of the pressure/vacuum relief valve. He stopped at the road...
MANAGING VIBRATION. SHOULD I RELY ON MANUFACTURER’S DATA?
April 1, 2021The use of power tools can expose workers to vibration through the hands and arms. Frequent, regular and prolonged exposure to this can cause permanent ill health and conditions such as hand-arm vibration syndrome and carpal tunnel syndr...
LONDON DIRECT VISION STANDARD AND HGV PERMIT NOW IN FORCE
April 1, 2021Previously we have reported on places to introduce a scheme whereby HGV’s over 12 tonnes would require a safety permit to enter Greater London or face a fine. It was proposed that vehicles would be given a zero to five star rating base...
LATEST HEALTH AND SAFETY FIGURES FOR NORTHERN IRELAND
April 1, 2021The Health and Safety Executive for Northern Ireland (HSENI) has published its Annual Report and Accounts. This covers the period 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2020. This report shows a fall in the number of fatal accidents with 11 deaths...
FREE HSE RISK MANAGEMENT WEBINAR
April 1, 2021Managing risks in the workplace can have a number of benefits for the employer, the employee and others including making work safer, avoiding unexpected events, contributing to a positive workplace culture and successful project manageme...
FIRE SAFETY CONSULTATION OUTCOME PUBLISHED
April 1, 2021Between July to October 2020 the government ran a consultation looking at proposals to strengthen the Fire Safety Order, implement Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations and strengthen the regulatory framework for how building control bo...
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): SAFER PRACTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL HAULIERS FROM 6TH APRIL 2021
March 31, 2021The Department for Transport has announced that rules for safer behaviour for hauliers making international journeys will take effect from 6th April. Hauliers entering England from outside of the Common Travel Area (UK, the Crown Depende...
A GUIDE TO RETURNING TO WORK SAFELY AFTER LOCKDOWN
March 22, 2021The Covid-19 pandemic continues to disrupt society presenting major challenges; workplaces have had to adapt new, Covid-secure ways of working, balancing the health & safety and wellbeing needs of employees and customers whilst operating...
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