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First Aid at Work Requalification | Renewal Rules and Refresher Training
When does your First Aid at Work certificate expire, and how do you renew it? A practitioner's guide to the 3-year rule, requalification vs refresher training, and staying HSE-compliant.
17.06.26
Are you Prepared for the New Sentencing Guidelines?
The new sentencing guidelines can be considered the biggest change in health and safety law for 40 years. The overall objective is to provide a comprehensive guide for judges and practitioners delivering consistency. In turn this will result in bigger fines for larger organisations and potentially increased imprisonment thresholds being imposed on all levels of culpable staff. In this blog I will concentrate on the impact of these new guidelines on individuals, which includes company directors, senior officers and health and safety professionals.
23.02.16
Advice for Extreme Winter Weather
Read Advice for Extreme Winter Weather: winter risk management policy and treacherous weather factors to consider.
17.11.15
The UK’s Safety Performance – a look at the HSE’s reported accident figures for 2014/15
05.11.15
Responsibilities of the Principal Designer under CDM 2015
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 came in to effect on 6 April 2015 with the key aim of encouraging safer working practice in order to prevent injury, ill-health and fatalities to those working in construction and also to reduce bureaucracy.
14.04.15
The Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS)
Learn more about the Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme (ESOS), aimed at increasing energy efficiency to mitigate climate change.
11.02.15