North West Occupational Health and Safety Conference and Exhibition – Mike Cross, HSE Director of Scotland and Northern England, will Chair the conference and provide a keynote address ‘Setting the Scene’.
North West Occupational Health and Safety Conference and Exhibition – Mike Cross, HSE Director of Scotland and Northern England, will Chair the conference and provide a keynote address ‘Setting the Scene’.
This course will help you understand the causes of slips, trips and falls, and highlight successful interventions that offer a great starting point for organisations looking to reduce falls.
The aim of the project was to identify the competencies required for roadside waste and recycling collection supervisors/team leaders to manage the health and safety of their crews, and to ascertain whether current training provided an adequate basis for these competencies to be developed.
A north east engineering firm has been fined for deliberately compromising the safety guards on machinery for production reasons.
The operators of the Grangemouth Oil Refinery were sentenced today for safety failings relating to an incident in which a worker was injured at the plant.
A South-West housing firm have been sentenced after capping off a chimney at one of their occupied properties despite the chimney being in use.
The benefits of outdoor play are universal, important lessons that simply can’t be taught in a classroom, real life lessons about dealing with risk and looking out for one another.
Ignition of flammable mists, particularly oil mist, can occur in offshore locations such as gas turbine enclosures, diesel engine rooms and platform legs present a significant major accident hazard potential. This work aims to produce a test method capable of assessing the effectiveness of oil mist detection under conditions typical of those found in practice.
HSE continues to work closely with Cheshire Police and Cheshire Fire and Rescue Services at the Wood Flour Mill in Bosley.
Two Scottish councils were fined today after an incident in which a child was found at the bottom of a local swimming pool.
A company has been fined following the death of a worker who became trapped in unguarded machinery at a Devon paper mill.
A timber gate manufacturer in Daventry has been fined after a young employee lost two fingers on his left hand while working on machinery.
Event sees launch of the revised guidance ‘Working Safely with Nanomaterials’ and leading experts and practitioners in nanosafety will provide an update on most recent knowledge, methods and techniques for working safely with nanomaterials in laboratories.
This report documents the development, implementation and results of a model to estimate the economic costs of accidents at major hazard sites in Great Britain, focusing on the impacts of the accident, and taking into consideration a broad spectrum of losses.
This forum, run by the National Association for Safety and Health in Care Services (NASHICS), is for everyone with a responsibility for health and safety in social care. Topics to be covered include fire safety, whistle-blowing, regulation, violence, employee wellbeing, enforcement and telecare technology.
A self-employed plumber has been fined for safety failings that led to an explosion at a domestic property in Cambrian Way, Haslingden.
As a Technical Architect in HSE you will assure IT solutions proposed by our current technology provider. You will also help to deliver our new technology strategy and enterprise architecture. Close date, 25 August 2015.
HSE’s IT Services are currently undergoing a transformation. You will join an existing team as Service Architect to establish and embed IT Infrastructure Library best practice principles and help to re-design the service. Close date, 21 August 2015.
Vacancy within HSL’s Engineering Support Team. Role primarily consists of the manufacture of bespoke test rigs, equipment and components by the application of hot working skills. Close date, 26 August 2015.
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