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Tackling stress – Harrogate NHS case study

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust give nurses more time to care. This project will add value to the patient experience by maintaining high quality of care; achieving higher levels of job satisfaction and going beyond patients expectations. Tackling stress – Harrogate NHS case study

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 1:30 pm

Food and drink manufacture website rebranded

The food and drink manufacturing industry actually comprises over 30 different industries. These range from slaughterhouses, sugar refineries and grain mills to malt manufacture and whisky distilling. The rebranded website includes a new design, new features, better navigation, resources… Food and drink manufacture website rebranded

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 1:30 pm

HSE Chair Speech – Health and safety challenges for nuclear construction

HSE Chair Judith Hackitt’s speech from the Nuclear Build – Construction Challenges Conference, 9 March 2010, Hilton Kensington Hotel, London, UK View speech and accompanying slides

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 11:39 am

Event aims to keep London’s stonemasons safe

Stonework companies in and around London are being invited to attend a free event in a bid to help reduce the rate of injury and ill health in the sector. Quality marble, granite and other stone finishes are now common in many high-spec houses and flats across the capital, and the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) [...]

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 10:38 am

Building company fined for putting workers at risk

A building company has been fined for putting workers at risk by using unsafe scaffolding. Driffield-based Shane Homes Limited, registered at Bowlalley Lane, Hull, was today fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £799 costs at Beverley Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to breaching Regulation 6(3) of the Work at Height Regulations 2005. View press release ‘Building company [...]

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 9:36 am

Nuclear stakeholder newsletter – February 2010

In February 2010, ND launched a brand new regular external stakeholder newsletter to ensure that anyone with an interest in what we do can keep up-to-date with developments in the Nuclear Directorate. We have set in place an ongoing programme of work to improve our communications with those that are interested in, or affected by, what [...]

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 8:35 am

Safety first for builders at the BBC’s new Salford HQ

The head of Britain’s safety at work watchdog has paid tribute to the commitment to high safety standards at one of the UK’s biggest construction sites. HSE Chair Judith Hackitt visited MediaCityUK – the £500m Peel Media development which includes a new home for BBC in the north – to see how leadership and innovation are [...]

Posted on 11 March 2010 | 7:34 am

Shattered Lives – use ‘STEP’ to manage slips and trips risks

Our eLearning tool, STEP (Slips and Trips eLearning Package) is designed to help you assess and manage slip and trip hazards in the workplace. STEP includes easy-to-follow guidance, case studies, videos, animations and quizzes. These are designed to give you the information you need to set up and maintain a safer way of working. Shattered Lives – [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 2:30 pm

Safe and sound at work – Do Your Bit with subsidised training from HSE

HSE are offering two new subsidised health and safety training courses designed to either help organizations get started with worker involvement; or improve their existing arrangements for involving workers. The courses are designed to help organisations achieve the potential benefits associated with a collaborative approach to health and safety at work. These include lower accident rates, [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 1:30 pm

Gas – Exercise Quartz information

The Network Emergency Coordinator (NEC) is regularly required to carry out a full-scale simulation of a Network Gas Supply Emergency (NGSE). Following the exercise, a report is produced for the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) detailing the effectiveness of the emergency arrangements and highlighting key findings. National Grid’s report on the 2009 National Emergency Co-ordinator (NEC) emergency [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 12:30 pm

Construction site safety leaflets

New safety leaflets for construction site builders have been published on the HSE website. What you need to know as a busy builder: Running a small construction site Manual Handling Roofwork Welfare

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 11:30 am

Merseyside builder fined after putting lives at risk

A Merseyside builder has been fined £1,500 after he and another man were spotted working on a pub roof in St Helens without safety equipment. HSE prosecuted Charles Molloy from Molloy Building Contractors after an inspector spotted the men on the roof of the Black Horse Hotel on Park Road on 18 June 2009. View press release [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 10:30 am

Falkirk Wheel turns in support of national safety campaign

British Waterways Scotland is backing a national campaign by HSE to make people aware of the potentially devastating consequences of slips, trips and falls in the workplace. One of Scotland’s top visitor attractions, 35 metre high Falkirk Wheel – the world’s first and only rotating boat lift which is just coming to the end of its [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 9:30 am

Intervention overview record system

This Semi-Permanent Circular introduces the revised ‘traffic light’ process. The system does not provide a performance forecasting tool for offshore installations or duty holders; it makes possible the use of gap analysis and trending techniques based on the outcomes of recorded intervention work. This information will inform and improve the planning and targeting of future intervention activity. View [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 8:30 am

Initiative launched to encourage quieter workplaces

A new initiative has been launched to encourage manufacturers to make quieter machinery and businesses to use it, in a bid to reduce noise-related ill health in the workplace. 170,000 people in the UK suffer deafness, tinnitus or other ear conditions as a result of exposure to excessive noise at work and the ‘Buy Quiet’ campaign, [...]

Posted on 10 March 2010 | 7:30 am

Free – Stone SHAD, London 25 March

Quality marble, granite and other stone finishes are now common in high specification houses and flats and there are many small companies that provide and install these surfaces. To help the small businesses that carryout this type of work, HSE has arranged a free Safety and Health Awareness Day (SHAD) workshop in an operational factory [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 4:45 pm

Careers in HSE – trainee inspector recruitment campaign

Our trainee Inspector recruitment campaign starts on April 7 2010, details will be available on our careers in HSE web page at that time. To keep up to date with recruitment news subscribe to the What’s New eBulletin. Careers in HSE – trainee inspector recruitment campaign

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 4:29 pm

Nuclear LLC Quarterly reports – Wylfa

The Nuclear Local Liaison Committee (LLC) Quarterly reports for 2009 quarter 4 for Magnox North Limited Wylfa power station are now available in English and Welsh. View Magnox North Limited Wylfa power station LLC fourth Quarterly report in English and Welsh

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 10:00 am

Prestigious award for HSE employee

A Health and Safety Executive employee, Rhaynukaa Soni has been named Female Professional of the Year, at the Political and Public Life Asian Voice Awards Ceremony. Rhaynukaa was presented with the prestigious award by Britain’s main Asian newspaper, Asian Voice for her work with HSE’s Construction Division’s London outreach project. View press release ‘Prestigious award for HSE [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 9:00 am

Firm fined after worker trapped for more than two hours in trench collapse

A building firm has been fined £5,000 after a worker was injured and trapped for more than two hours when the trench he was in collapsed. Vickers Construction Limited, of Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe, was today (8 March) also ordered to pay costs of £3,178.10 at Darlington Magistrates’ Court after it pleaded guilty to breaching section 2(1) [...]

Posted on 9 March 2010 | 8:00 am

Health and Safety Consultants

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Suffolk Office: 30 Medway Road, Ipswich, IP3 0QH.
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Manchester Office: 1 Portland Street, Manchester, Lancashire, M1 3BE
Leeds Office: 14 King Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS1 2HL
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