The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) will be continuing to run its Fabricated Metals inspection programme until at least March 2022 – are you confident your business is compliant with COSHH if an inspector calls? HSE Inspectors are paying particular...
Leicestershire based health and safety engineering risk management experts, Finch Consulting, are ending the year on a high with the appointment of Claire Curtis. Claire joins at the end of a successful year of recruitment for Finch, finding the best...
In this upcoming series of articles, Tristan Pulford discusses ATEX, the hierarchy of controls and what you need to be aware of. This first part takes a look at ATEX, what it is, and how to know if it applies...
Today, the parts cleaning process has become a quality critical manufacturing step in all industry sectors. Often it takes great effort to reproducibly meet particulate and film-type cleanliness specifications. At the same time cleaning is to be done at the...
The British Occupational Hygiene Society, the Chartered Society for Worker Health Protection, and the Faculty of Asbestos Assessment and Management (FAAM) invites all asbestos professionals to the BOHS Asbestos 2021 Virtual Conference. With the demand for qualified asbestos professionals being...
ALARP is an acronym and stands for as low as reasonably practicable and this has a particular meaning as a tenet that underpins much of what we do in health and safety. It means fundamentally that we need to get...
Learning to lead It’s no secret that leadership can have a make-or-break impact on an organisation’s success. Ensuring that the impact is positive requires more investigation and ideally the help of experience-based insights. In fact, good leadership is itself a...
The International Powered Access Federation (IPAF) has launched a new type of membership, the Safety Professional member category, aimed at those in health & safety or related supervisory roles within powered access or wider end-use sectors. The new membership category...
Assentech – Keeping the Industry Safe, Compliant & Profitable : Reducing fugitive emissions and documenting the process will be music to the ears of your Compliance Team who are likely getting to grips with ESG declaration as we all adapt...
Quick Guide to Own Your Dust Explosion Safety Assessment – Online Seminar 23/9/21 : Here is a problem: you want to retire at 60 and need enough money in your pension, savings and assets to enable that, how would you...
