We recently delivered an in-house IOSH Managing Safely course to a new client. One of the company directors had been to a MESH breakfast presentation and decided he had a group of 10 managers and supervisors that needed to understand their health & safety responsibilities better. Interestingly the company had felt …
[0 comments] Read and discussWhere to get competent health & safety advice
Did you know that last year the HSE advice line fielded 750,000 calls from small businesses? As of this month that advice/info line has been withdrawn, which begs the question where do these businesses go now for competent advice. The HSE has defended the withdrawal by saying that these businesses can find …
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The HSE proposal to replace the Health and Safety (Fees) Regulations 2010 to reinstate existing fees and to extend the range of activities for which HSE recovers costs. In addition to reinstating existing fees the proposed Fees Regulations would place a duty on HSE to recover costs where dutyholders are found to be in …
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We recently undertook a PUWER review for a large college and during a general discussion with one of the college H&S advisor's the Subject of the OHSCR scheme was brought up. The college H&S advisor mentioned that the consultants that they use had claimed they had not signed up to OHSCR as one of …
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