December 2009
Congratulations
We have great pleasure in advising that Lucinda has taken her first steps to becoming a Health & Safety Professional by obtaining a Distinction in her NEBOSH General Certificate! Lucinda is now taking her NEBOSH Occupational Health & Safety Diploma and will be carrying out more and more operational duties.
December 2009
Summonsed to the Lords!
Jason Jacques, Managing Director of Temple Safety Ltd and the Chairman of the West & North Yorkshire Construction Safety Association is off to the House of Lords in January to receive the Highly Commended Award for Best Overall Programme from Safety Groups UK for his work with the WNYCSA. For info on the WNYCSA please visit: www.freewebs.com/wyncsa/
July 2009
The Health & Safety of Great Britain - A pledge...
The HSE are asking companies to play their part in reducing accidents, work related illness, not to trivialise health and safety and to take a common sense approach to health and safety. If you like us, like the sound of this then please sign up here:-
http://www.hse.gov.uk/strategy/pledge.htm
March 2009
The Health and Safety Executive is to recruit an extra 25 construction safety inspectors. They are being hired on a 2-year fixed term contract from June of this year and will be concentrating on refurbishment work.
The HSE says the initiative is particularly aimed at boosting inspection of refurbishment sites. These currently represent one of the most dangerous areas of construction work.
The additional inspectors will prioritise preventative work rather than the investigation of accidents. They will serve enforcement notices and assist with prosecutuions.
They will receive special bespoke training so that they can swiftly become active on site.
February 2009
Last year (2007/08) over half (52%) of the workers who died on construction sites across the UK worked in refurbishment, repair and maintenance, in line with a similar shocking statistic the previous year (2006/07). Nationally during February 2009, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) aims to inspect 1500 refurbishment sites across Great Britain, to tackle poor health and safety standards in support of its Shattered Lives and Hidden Killer campaigns.