After a frantic three months of setting up safe systems of work, risk assessments and method statements as well as policies (for everything under the sun it seemed at times) we are now ready to accept new clients again. If you run your own company that employs staff and get your safety advice from an external advisor (or not) then calling us could save you money, make you compliant and improve your efficiency. Get practical safety advice from an advisor who understands your w

Its always nice to see clients achieve their goals of accreditation, especially when you have had a hand in making it happen for them. Here are some examples of our happy clients: Dragon Sealants Ltd - Mr. Glenn Morris. "Dragon Sealants Ltd are now accredited with CHAS health and safety mark. Thankyou Robert Jones for your help, we would recommend anyone needing assistance and I will definitely be using his services in the future" EAP Solutions Ltd - Mr. Chris Newman. "EAP So

Getting your safety advisor to understand the practicality of working at height and not simply work positioning at height can be tricky. What with most Safety professionals coming from an office based professional background they have no real concept of the physicality of the works undertaken or the complexity that comes with accessing such works. We however, have the working knowledge to remove the misunderstanding of the difference between: Fall Arrest Work Positioning Work

photograhs copywrite constructionenquirer.com Some People take their access arrangements very seriously. Others, not so much. Here are a selection of wonderful images showing interesting methods of accessing high level works. Enjoy (just for a bit of fun on a monday) The number plate is quite profetic too :) The worlds highest and most dangerous trestle "If we stick this one on top of that one we might reach" Its a called a ladder rack to "Carry" them! Aah! The old Farm machi

Some company Directors, Owners, Managers and even field based staff see health & safety as a barrier to them working. A neccesary evil to keep the wolves of litigation from the door of the company's profits. It can however be your key to greater efficiency and in turn greater profits. Intergrating safety paperwork within your routine work sheets, which have to be completed as matter of course, can be a boon to some companies, speeding up the processing of invoices and improvi

Are you completly lost by the new Construction Design Management Regulations 2015 [CDM 2015] ? You're not alone. Most have no idea of their new obligation to create site specific paperwork or Construction Phase Plan (CPP) even for domestic works. The confusion seems to lie in the submission of an F10 form as a 'notifiable project' and the creation of the CPP for a project. The two have no relation any longer. The old system of an F10 Form notification to the HSE if you have a

In 2016 new guidelines are set to be introduced for health and safety, corporate manslaughter and food / hygiene offences, penalties for most defendants will be higher than previously issued due largly to the guidelines issued to judges. Although the law itself remains largely unchanged, the main legislation to ensure the health and safety of employees, sub-contractors and visitors / third parties, is still the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Previously, Crown Court judge

A good risk assessment is one that professionals and 'competant persons' deam to be "Suitable and Suficient" and reduces risk "As far as is reasonably practicable". Now while all this is a foreign language to most people and a language specific to Health & Safety Professionals it is required under law (Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations1999) that they are carried out. They can be "generic" and therefore not worth the paper they are written on or they can be eff