The HSE Website
Today, April 6th 2009, saw a change to the Health and Safety Law poster that all employers are legally obliged to display in the workplace.
The HSE have done a decent job of modernising the old beige coloured poster that was filled with tiny text and was only ever glanced at by employees. The new poster is much cleaner in appearance and is nicely broken up into defined section headed with and image and split using well defined bullet points.
Your employer does not immediately have to rush out and buy the new poster as you can continue using your old poster until April 5th 2014, as long as the information for the enforcing authority and the employment medical advisory service is still clear and up-to-date.
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Posted: April 7th, 2009 by Chris
| Filed under Safety
Aftermath of sling incident.
As you may have gathered I work in the construction industry. Statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive tell us there were 229 fatally injured workers in the year 2007/2008 and that this figure has been fairly stable for the last 5 years. We do not work dangerously in the construction industry but we do have to deal with potentially dangerous scenarios nearly every day. Thankfully we work to control and minimise these risks to ensure everyone gets to go home at the end of the day. Back in December 2008 I witnessed a potentially fatal incident at our job in Tile Hill, Coventry. Thankfully the worst injury was a couple of bruised knees and a few shocked people.
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Posted: February 12th, 2009 by Chris
| Filed under Civils, Drainage, Safety
