Health & safety blog
Practical guidance on safety management, training, workplace culture and wellbeing from the EazySAFE team.
Driving on icy roads and in Winter Weather
Dark evenings and mornings, flooding, high winds, fog and winter sun ensure we always have to be alert at the wheel.
Understanding Safety: Basic Requirements for the Work Related Vehicle Safety (WRVS)
This discussion looks at the general occupational health and safety issues that are related to the Work Related Vehicle Safety (WRVS).
Are you Suffering from Occupational Burnout?
Symptoms can manifest themselves as physical, emotional and mental exhaustion. These usually occur after a long-term period of work strain.
Health and Safety Myths – Ignorance is not bliss
Health and safety is often misunderstood and applied in inappropriate ways, let’s take a look at some examples of this crazy phenomenon…
EU-OSHA – Occupational health and safety in the EU
EU-OSHA is the European Union information agency for occupational safety and health. Our work contributes to the European Commission’s Strategic Framework for Safety and Health at work 2014-2020 and other relevant EU strategies and programmes, such as Europe 2020
Benchmarking Health and Safety - Key Considerations
Areas where benchmarking health and safety can be considered include management system standards and industry and process specific requirements.
5 Tips for Organising your Safety Meetings
How productive are your monthly safety meetings? Are they just a tick the box exercise and you get nothing done? Your safety committee can be a fantastic tool for your Health and Safety Toolbox. Here are five tips to make sure you are getting the very best out of your team.
Standardising Contractor Training
The best place to start in relation to standardising your contractor training is an induction process. As well as induction training, it is important that you compile and maintain an Approved Contractor Control Register.
Protecting Young Workers' Health and Safety
So what makes young workers so vulnerable? A young person or young workers' perspective is undeveloped; the lack of real-life experience is to be expected and they need guidance and protection through this vulnerable time.
Taking Care of the Top Two Inches - Mental Health
It's time to start allocating as much time to your mental health as your physical wellbeing. Cal Gray advises that compassion, realism and appreciation help to form a healthy mind. Everyone you interact with has concerns, they have stress, they have family problems. They’re not perfect, they’re so far from it. Every time someone is late replying to an email or gets your order in a restaurant wrong, remember they’re human. We all make mistakes.
