The HSE Executive Board met recently to approve the organisation’s business plan for 2020-2021. We’ve summarised below the key points.
While many construction sites remained operational during the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, many builders which had paused operations are now heading back to work as the government confirms construction sites are safe to reopen.
Before the coronavirus pandemic, few people would have imagined such a rapid transition to homeworking was possible.
Boris Johnson’s latest statement to the nation on providing a roadmap to ease the coronavirus lockdown restrictions has been met with a mixture of relief and confusion.
With government allowing construciton sites to remain open during the COVID-19 pandemic, and with constructrion workers designated as keyworkers, many sites in the UK have remained operational.
Mail and logistics company DHL was fined £2.6 million in October 2019 following the death of a worker at a site the company had recently acquired. The accident could have been prevented if the company had carried out a health and safety audit.
With darker mornings and evenings and the risk of severe weather conditions, such as hail, snow and fog, winter can be a hazardous time for drivers.
A recent report has highlighted issues with fire doors installed in high rise buildings which could have led to the doors not doing their job in the event of a fire.
Two fire risk assessors have been prosecuted recently for failing to do their job promptly, with lessons for all those engaging the services of fire safety consultants.
As we enter the holidays, I’m sure many of us will be sitting down in front of the TV and watching some classic movies, many of them featuring fake snow.