Welcome to the February 2012 edition of the MESH Consultants Safety Matters email newsletter. This newsletter is available on free subscription only and is our way of keeping you informed about developments in Health and Safety. To review or amend your subscription details, please see the notes at the end. In …
[0 comments] Read and discussPoorly risk assessed maintenance task costs Bus Company £20k
A tour bus operator, The Original London Sightseeing Tour Limited has been fined after a mechanical engineer suffered serious injuries while working underneath one of its vehicles. Westminster Magistrates' Court heard the 58-year-old employee was working underneath the vehicle at a bus depot while reseating an airbag on one of the …
[0 comments] Read and discussWhat should risk assessments cover?
This has been a question that many businesses have asked over the years as they become frustrated as to what level their assessments need to go to. It seems that many tend to look for the obvious dangers and then sit back and claim that anything else was not foreseeable …
[0 comments] Read and discussDo forklift truck drivers need to be formally trained?
Whilst recently on a site in the North West, to undertake a DSEAR assessment, we observed a number of forklift truck operators moving around large containers of flammable liquids. As part of our survey we asked about the competency of the drivers and was surprised that only one had received …
[0 comments] Read and discussMost health and safety consultants know legislation– but can they implement positive changes?
Over the last few years health and safety consultants have been put under the spotlight as concerns had been raised that the industry was not regulated sufficiently. In truth we were all concerned that just about anybody could set themselves up as a consultant; qualified or not. We know that today …
[0 comments] Read and discussSafe Contractor – how it impacts on your business
Is your business supplying contractor services to clients or employing contractors? If the answer is “yes” to either then you will probably have come across the Safe Contractor scheme; but do you know what it means? In the past it was just a badge that contractors applied for and paid their …
[0 comments] Read and discussBig business sees HSE Fee for Intervention as money making scheme
At a recent meeting with a long term client, the discussion moved to the proposed HSE Fee for Intervention scheme due to start this coming April. Our client installs signs across the U.K. and works for many blue chip companies, and it was one of these that had recently supplied …
[0 comments] Read and discussHSE issues new guidance on DSEAR
Is DSEAR an issue that your business needs to comply with? If you’re not sure then why not take a look at the HSE simple guidance: http://www.hse.gov.uk/fireandexplosion/about.htm#?eban=rss- . Because DSEAR covers such a wide range of explosion risks then it is an area that many businesses overlook and from experience only …
[0 comments] Read and discussIs your business PUWER safe?
Looking through the HSE prosecution news, it strikes us how many prosecutions are successfully taken by the HSE for failures to provide safe work equipment and systems of work. Only this last 2-3 weeks has seen: An international manufacturer in court after a worker lost 3 fingers in a machine due …
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