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
Read more →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
Read more →We have a number of enquiries on a daily basis asking us for bespoke risk assessment & method statements
Read more →Growth of networked electronic controls is a safety issue. No self regarding health and safety professional would disregard hazard evaluations and systems for Asbestos, work at height or manual handling; yet I’ll wager that the only risk assessment you have for IT is a display screen assessment.
Read more →Howarth Timber, the UK’s biggest privately owned timber organization, has been requested to pay more than £100,000 in fines and expenses after a worker died when he fell through a delicate rooftop at one of the organization’s sites. The roofer Howarth employed to fix a leak has
Read more →Health & Safety Myth Busters Panel Having recently come across a section on the HSE website called Health & Safety Myth Busters it gave us here at Seguro a new insight into how some people blatantly use Heath & Safety as a way to get out of doing something they don’t want
Read more →In May 2015 the HSE reported on 44 cases involving companies that were found negligent resulting in average fines of £10k per company. The latest case being a property company in Lancashire who have been fined £14,400 plus full HSE prosecution costs of £1,276 and a victim
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