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Tailoring Safety Training for your Staff & Contractors

Conflict resolution is a challenging area, but as a manager or supervisor, it comes with the job. Although it is challenging, it can extremely rewarding also. It’s another attribute that you can add to your skill set and an excellent addition to your personal development.

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Health & Safety Tips, Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Workplace Culture, Workplace Health & Safety, Workstation Safety

Understanding Safety: How to Approach Worker Consultation

Understanding Safety: How to Approach Worker Consultation ANDY TILLEARD EHS Consultant EazySAFE Worker consultation is a legal requirement within Irish health and safety legislation so that employers can carry out their duties in law to communicate workplace hazards and to promote occupational health and safety. Communications is a key component of any safety management system (both from the top-down and from the bottom-up) for employers, employees and third parties to be involved with the exchange…

Compliance Training, Contractor Management, Manual Handling, Online Training, Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Workplace Accidents, Workplace Health & Safety, Workstation Safety

Manual Handling

Manual Handling GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE Back injuries and back pain are something that most people suffer during their lifetime. A lot of the time, back injuries happen in the workplace. In fact, according to the HSA manual handling accidents are the most common accidents (2019) and these accidents usually cause back injuries. So, it makes sense for any company to focus on reducing all manual handling risks as much as possible to ensure employees are…

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Contractor Management, Mental Health, Return to Work, Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Workstation Safety

Risk Assessment

Risk Assessment GEMMA COLLINS DOYLE EHS Consultant EazySAFE We hear the term risk assessments bandied about all the time regarding health and safety. However, from my experience, many people are unaware of how important they are, what they are and how they really are the foundation of ensuring you are adhering to health and safety legislation and maintaining your health and safety management system. In simple terms, a risk assessment is a thorough examination of what, in a workplace, could cause harm,…

Health & Safety Tips, Safety Culture, Safety in the Home, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Workplace Culture, Workstation Safety

Rebuilding the Workplace

Rebuilding the Workplace LISA QUINN O'FLAHERTY Solicitor Fitzsimons Redmond Never before have we had such a blank slate to shape our workplaces to suit the needs of all stakeholders. Office workers have kept businesses afloat over the last year and a half from their own homes. They have proven that the model where everybody works from a central office is both unnecessary and outdated. Workers have shown that targets can be met while working from…

Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Workplace Health & Safety

Understanding Safety: Workers in Sensitive Risk Groups

Understanding Safety: Workers in Sensitive Risk Groups ANDY TILLEARD EHS Consultant EazySAFE There are myriad environments that people work in on a day to day basis in which they are able to work without undue problems, what most of us would consider to be a normal working regime. Although there are some more hazardous risk management issues that may need to be assessed and managed, such as working with chemicals, working in a confined space…

Fire Safety, Health & Safety Tips, Manual Handling, Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement, Security, Stress Management, Workplace Accidents, Workplace Health & Safety, Workplace Wellness, Workstation Safety

Hidden Dangers – Office Safety

The office is not the first place you would think of when you think of safety at work! Office places would not usually fall into the high-risk category, but this does not mean that no hazards exist here. Let’s take a closer look. A job where most work tasks are carried out while sitting in a chair in a climate-controlled office would …

Health & Safety Tips, Safety Culture, Safety Management, Safety Statement

Understanding Safety: Safety Statements

The term safety statement is used to describe a document which summarises how an Irish company manages risk and provides an opportunity for company management to show commitment to their employees that workplace risk is effectively managed.