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HSE lists top 10 Health & Safety Myths

HSE continues to tackle Health and Safety myths by publishing its top 10 worst. A lack of understanding has led to Health & Safety often being cited as the source of unnecessary controls. All the points listed below are NOT required by Health & Safety law. Children being banned from playing conkers unless they are wearing goggles Office workers being banned from putting up Christmas decorations Trapeze artists being ordered to wear hard hats Pin the tail on the donkey games being deemed a health and safety risk Candy floss... Read More

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Schmallenberg virus (SBV) identified in UK livestock

Tests by the Animal Health and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) have confirmed the presence of Schmallenberg virus (SBV) in livestock samples submitted since January 2012 from a number of farms in the south and east of England. Positive cases have been identified on the Isle of Wight, West Berkshire, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire. Previously, cases have been identified across the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, East and West Sussex, Hertfordshire, Surrey, Hampshire, Cornwall and Wiltshire.   To date, the majority of the cases of SBV infection have been... Read More

New BS-8599 British Standard for Workplace First Aid kits

New BS-8599 British Standard for Workplace First Aid kits   The New BS-8599 standard for workplace first aid kits has been effective since 30th of June.  This standard replaces the BHTA-HSE kits universally used in the UK, and are based on HSE guidelines.  The old standard, first published in 1997, will be withdrawn from 31st December 2011.   Despite many EU states having a national standard for workplace first aid kits, until now, the UK did not.  The BHTA guidelines were in need of revision because training protocols have changed,... Read More

The Importance of Safe Systems of Work

    The lack of a safe system of work and the failure to ensure the health, safety and welfare of a man who ventured on to a fragile roof led to a fatal accident and prosecution. The joint owners of Allenbrooks Developments Ltd, one of whom was the accident victim, were replacing skylights in the roof of one their units in Wymondham, Norfolk, in the company of an employee. On 6th April 2010, the deceased fell 10m through the corrugated asbestos cement sheet roof. Edge protection was in place... Read More

HSE Safety Alert

There have been two recent fatalities involving shellfish diving in inshore waters leading to HSE issuing a safety. In recent weeks, HSE has investigated two separate fatalities involving diving for shellfish. This can be a dangerous activity and needs to be carried out by competent and appropriately qualified divers. Suitable plans and procedures are key to the whole diving team conducting activities safely and reacting effectively in a diving emergency. Any diving activity undertaken without regard for the Diving at Work Regulations 1997 will be putting people’s lives at risk.... Read More