The Importance Of Safe Manual Handling In Your Business All manual work involves lifting and handling to some extent. Although mechanical equipment should be used whenever practicable, much of the work will inevitably continue to be done manually. The risk of injury can be greatly reduced by
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Falls from height continues to be the largest causes of major injuries and fatalities. About 4000 working at height-related accidents occur each year at work and the most common cases are falls from ladders and through fragile services. Alarmingly, two thirds of all major injuries at work
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SSIP Membership Did you know that there are some Health & Safety qualifications you can get as part of the SSIP membership scheme as long as you hold a scheme membership certificate for one of the full Schemes. In laymen terms this means for example if you
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Construction Phase Plan Know your responsibilities As potential Contractors under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015, you need to be aware of your responsibilities. The CDM Regulations require all construction projects to have a construction phase plan (CPP), you will need to ensure this is in place before
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What is a risk Assessment? A risk assessment is to enable you to identify sensible control and measures for risks within your workplace. Risk Assessments are not meant to create huge amounts of work for anyone in the company but should be there to ensure the safety of you
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Health & Safety when you have 5 employees or more As soon as you have 5 employees or more you have a legal requirement to ensure you have full Health & Safety in place. Your obligations are outlined in the Safety at Work Regulations 1974. How this changes from
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CHAS or Not? Are you thinking about getting your CHAS accreditation but not sure if it is the right one for you and your business. Most of the requests we get to help people with their CHAS application are from companies who have been asked to have
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Health & Safety questions in May At Seguro we often get asked questions that we think other people may be thinking about so we have decided to share some of them on a monthly basis. If you have a question you would like answering please get in
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Which Accreditation is best for my business? This is a question here at Seguro that we get asked on a daily basis, as a consultant that is not a question we can answer for your business. There are a number of factors you should take into account
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How can i check if someone is SSIP registered? We get a number of calls a day asking questions with regards to SSIP registration. In terms of being able to check if someone has a valid SSIP certificate you can check on the SSIP website. In order to
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