The Benefits of Health and Safety Induction Training
Everyone that visits your site should have some kind of formal induction. Each induction will need to cover different topics, for example, Visitors won’t need to know how to fill out a permit to work form, but they will need to know where their assembly point is, in the event of an emergency.
Promoting a Culture of Safety
Safety Culture is probably one of the most important aspects of safety management, and probably the most difficult to implement. Whether you are a safety professional, supervisor, manager or an employee of a company, you need to consider the importance of creating a strong safety culture within your Organisation.
EU-OSHA – Occupational health and safety in the EU
For most safety practitioners and others with an interest in occupational health and safety, there is normally a familiarity with the government organisation that has been defined in legislation as the statutory body for enforcing occupational health and safety legislation at a national level.
Benchmarking Health and Safety – Key Considerations
Benchmarking has proven to be a useful process used to drive improvement in management systems resulting in the opportunity for improved performance, enhanced reputation and also providing new opportunities for businesses.
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.
Protecting Young Workers’ Health and Safety
So what makes young workers so vulnerable? A young person or younger workers perspective is undeveloped; the lack of real-life experience is to be expected and they need guidance and protection through this vulnerable time.
Human Influences in Emergency Situations
Understanding how humans react psychologically to emergencies may give some insight into how your own behaviour and the behaviour of the group may be compromised in an emergency.
Successful companies look after EHS
Successful companies have realised (maybe some the hard way) that it makes perfect business sense to treat the area of EHS as any other integral part of the business. EHS is no longer a separate silo on its own. In these successful companies, it is considered an equal with other departments.
Risk Assessment – The basic principles
Where risk cannot be avoided, it has to be managed. This means developing an approach to identify, analyse, evaluate and control risk.
The Small Business Cheat Sheet for Cost-Effective Safety Management
We’ve developed this cheat sheet to help you, the small business owner, learn more about cost-effective safety management tactics like risk assessment, developing a safety statement and training.