With its 18th Implementing COMAH event, SIESO aims to update delegates with the latest information on Seveso III, flooding & pipeline risks, what’s your legal position? and what impact do social media have on COMAH? Manchester Conference Centre 30 april 2012.
Category: Fire and rescue services
Clocks go back this weekend – Householders check your smoke alarms as well
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Government campaign asks householders to check smoke alarms when you put the clocks back. Encouraging people to test their household smoke alarm at the same time they change their clocks at the end of British Summer time is the aim of the new ‘Fire Kills campaign’.
HSE responds to The Telegraph article – “Sir Paul Stephenson: let us risk our lives”
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
HSE Chair Judith Hackitt’s response
Heroism in the fire and rescue service
Thursday, March 31, 2011
HSE fully endorses the recommendation in Common Sense, Common Safety that individual firefighters should not be at risk of investigation or prosecution, under health and safety law, if they have put themselves at risk as a result of a heroic act. This guidance outlines how HSE defines heroism and explains how HSE will deal with [...]
SIESO: Updating COMAH Workshop – May 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
SIESO – Updating COMAH workshop aims to update delegates on: Seveso III proposals, COMAH Competent Authority strategy, revised Fire Service operations, Cabinet Office view on warning informing the public, and the cyber-terrorism threat to industrial sites. The Conference Centre, Manchester , 16 May 2011.
HSE responds to Daily Mail article on firefighter safety
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Paul Stollard, HSE’s Director for Scotland responds to Daily Mail article “We’re held back by health and safety, says fire chief”
HSE publishes new guidance on fire safety in construction
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
HSE has today published revised guidance on “Fire Safety in Construction”.
Fire safety in construction
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
This is the second edition of Fire safety in construction, first published in 1997.
Fire leaders back plan to strike the right balance on health and safety
Friday, March 12, 2010
Leading fire and rescue figures are backing efforts to strike the right balance between protecting fire-fighters and ensuring they can properly respond to emergencies.
Striking the balance between operational and health and safety duties in the Fire and Rescue Service
Friday, March 12, 2010
This statement is intended to clarify how the Fire and Rescue Service should comply with health and safety at work duties within their operational work.
Crown Prosecution Service Statement on Martin and Nathan Winter and Alpha Fireworks Ltd.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Sarah Jane Gallagher, Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Crown Prosecution Service in Sussex after the sentencing of Martin and Nathan Winter at Lewes Crown Court said: “This is a tragic case
Catamaran surf style rescue boats and similar non-conventional rescue craft
Friday, December 4, 2009
Issue: Using non-conventional or catamaran type craft as safety boats can be problematic.
Scotland events
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Details of three additional events have been added to the Scotland events page these are: Scottish Fire and Forensic Conference
Myth of the month – October 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Despite the story of a rugby club showing a film of a bonfire instead of lighting a real one, health and
Proposed guidance on blood-borne viruses in the workplace
Monday, September 22, 2008
Have your say on proposed changes to guidance document: “Protection against blood-borne
Dodgy ladders shatter lives
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Exchange your dodgy ladder now. Ladder Exchange 2008 aims to highlight the risks associated
Attendance management in the Fire and Rescue Service
Thursday, July 10, 2008
This report presents the findings of an in-depth study of policies and practices in the management of sickness absence
Myth of the month: July 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Dispelling the health and safety myth: Poles are banned in fire stations. It was widely reported that a fire station was built
Cylinders in Fire – National Stakeholder Group
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
The Cylinders In Fire National Stakeholder Group (CIF-NSG) was formed in November 2006 to collectively understand and
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