Maintaining good housekeeping is essential for ensuring employee safety within an organisation. Effective housekeeping practices can help companies minimise workplace hazards and create a safe and secure environment for their employees. 1. Maintain a regular cleaning schedule Ensure that floors and surfaces are cleaned on a regular basis, along with carrying out immediate ad hoc […]
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Silica Dust Toolbox Talk
This blog can be delivered to your staff as a Toolbox Talk. If you require a specific Toolbox Talk for your workplace, please feel free to get in touch. Reason: Breathing in crystalline silica dust can lead to chronic lung disease, and is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of construction workers in the UK each […]
Top 10 Simple Tips for Preventing Accidental Injuries
Employers are required by law to ensure the health and safety of all employees and anyone affected by their work, so far as is reasonably practicable. While in some work environments this may mean extensive control measures, almost every workplace from an office to a construction site will have simple changes that can be made […]
Safety Spotlight: Electrical Safety, Fire Safety, Fire Wardens & Slips, Trips and Falls
As part of September’s Hazard of the Month, Maintenance, we’re highlighting four key areas: Electrical Safety, Fire Safety, Fire Wardens and Slips, Trips & Falls. Electrical Safety Electrical has the power to severely injure or kill people and cause serious damage to property, and even non-fatal shocks can cause severe and permanent injury. Therefore it is […]
Top 10 Tips for Ensuring Welfare at Work
By law, there are certain welfare facilities that businesses must provide for their workers and visitors to their premises. This is the minimum standard the employers must meet, however welfare in the workplace can be improved even more by further actions. Read out top ten tips to find out what you should be implementing in […]