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Whatever the nature of your business, risk assessments are essential to keep your employees, visitors and workplace safe. It’s also a legal requirement for employers of five or more people. As such, this ensures your business is compliant with its statutory duty as stated in the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974.
There are no specific rules as to how they should be carried out. However, there are established general principles to guide you through the procedure and bespoke digital solutions to streamline, document and monitor the process.

Before implementing health and safety procedures, you first need to assess exactly where the hazards lie. Every workplace has potential hazards, whatever the nature of your business. Some will be obvious and others less so, but you still need to hunt them out and take appropriate measures to manage them safely.

The specifics will be different for each business, but the four categories below broadly cover all eventualities

There’s no excuse for cutting corners when it comes to health and safety. And yet, without a comprehensive, cross-platform system that’s simple to use and straightforward to update, it’s all too easy for serious incidents to occur.
The consequences of non-compliance can be far-reaching indeed, and not just for the people involved in the incident itself. Workers, managers and senior directors may all be held accountable, depending on circumstances, and the future stability of your company could be seriously undermined.
Here’s the result of inadequate health and safety procedures.

Following health and safety protocols is essential for your business. It protects everyone, allows your business to operate efficiently and remain compliant, and it’s the law. However, health and safety protocols tend to focus primarily on physical procedures, whilst mental health issues often end up on the back burner.

With laws on health and safety standards constantly changing, employers must keep up with the latest developments. New technology is providing exciting solutions to keep your business safe and compliant, and it improves efficiency and costs.

Here are some of the main innovations that are transforming the workplace.

COSHH isn’t just a random collection of letters thrown together by government health and safety regulators; COSHH is one of the most important aspects of a health and safety compliant working environment.
COSHH stands for ‘Control of Substances Hazardous to Health’, and it’s a set of regulations enforced by law, by the government, to ensure that dangerous chemicals and substances are handled safely.
Breaking COSHH regulations not only results in a prosecution, but can directly lead to workplace accidents that leave employees injured, or worse. In this blog post, we examine the basics of COSHH and how you can become COSHH compliant in the workplace.

The notion of risk assessment is both an ancient and modern concept. With a long history dating back thousands of years to the ancient world, the idea of assessing risk is nothing new to humans engaged in potentially dangerous pursuits. In fact, making successful risk assessments has been key to the survival of the human race over centuries.

But risk assessments as we know them today would be unrecognisable even to health and safety workers carrying out audits just a few decades ago. Modern technology and the use of data and statistics have allowed us to turn risk assessments into a calculated and scientific process that is only ever improving with each new advance.

In this article, we explore the history of risk assessment and examine how it has evolved over the years

An efficient system for visitor management should be a key part of every workplace, whether office, factory, construction site or public utility. It’s essential not just for the visitors’ experience but for the company as a whole, yet too often this is overlooked.

A well-organised system is necessary to avoid all manner of health and safety issues, and it provides the perfect opportunity to showcase your organisation to your visitors. Here are the main points to consider.

The UK manufacturing sector can be a dangerous place to work. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reports approximately 61,000 non-fatal injuries per year and 26 fatalities in the period 2018-19. Sobering statistics indeed. And yet there are many ways to manage and minimise the risks.

The first step is to implement and maintain robust and easy-to-follow health and safety procedures in the workplace. Here are the measures you should follow to protect the safety and wellbeing of your employees

According to the UK’s Health and Safety Executive 28.2 million workdays were lost in 2018.19 due to work-related accidents and ill health!
The health and safety statistics in our infographic make sobering reading and show how much still needs to be done.

The Truth Behind the Statistics – Why Health and Safety Matters
Whatever the size of your organisation, your top priority is the health and safety of your employees. Clear safety procedures benefit everyone and ensure compliance with your legal obligations, as stated in the Health and Safety At Work etc. Act 1974.

The need to isolate ourselves at home has led to a whole new way of living. Our homes are also our workplaces, classrooms and gyms. For some, they’ve also become places to grow food and lead a more self-sufficient life.

This situation is likely to persist well into the future, as numerous questions about how and if we should return to our old ways of living and working remain unanswered.

It’s a daunting time, and yet it also provides an opportunity to do things differently. Architects, interior designers and builders are already rising to the challenge, and exciting new ideas about home design are beginning to emerge.