Despite this many organisations continue to fail to adequately document their system or develop systems that are so complicated no-one bothers following them. The result is that health and safety [...]

Claudia Calder Ten years ago, on the 20th April 2010, during the final phases of drilling onboard the Deepwater Horizon of an exploratory well at Macondo, a geyser of seawater […]

The increasing number of people using e-cigarettes has led to a number of organisations wondering what their policy should be towards their use at work and if they are harmful […]

Day two of Ergo Week and we’ve got another informing article, this time from lawyer David Egan from Irwin Mitchell LLP, discussing eight steps to avoiding prosecution under health and [...]

Employers have a legal duty under the Health and Safety Information for Employees Regulations (HSIER) to display the approved health and safety poster in a prominent position in each workplace [...]

Healthy Working MOVE will teach children and young people how to work and relax safely when using electronic devices Cardinus Risk Management course will be offered free of charge to […]

Although the Data Protection Act has been around since 1998, the information environment we operate in has changed dramatically. The personal data of many groups of individuals held by our […]

Shocking statistics show that half of all accidental house fires were caused by faulty or misused electrical equipment. From faulty fridges and forgotten irons, to overloaded plugs and dodgy [...]

Every company will state that occupational health and safety is important, and every MD or CEO will make statements of how they are committed to achieving excellent health and safety […]

Works undertaken by a contractor are usually subject to civil law, but certain aspects of criminal law also apply to the operation of the contract. The safety of contractors is […]