THSP is Now Employee Owned!
Our customers have just been informed that THSP (The Health and Safety People Limited) is now an Employee-Owned business
Pensioners and Pension Scheme Participation
Currently, when a worker reaches their 66th birthday they are not auto-enrolled into a Workplace Pension Scheme, as they hit the State Pension Age.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2021
10 September is World Suicide Prevention Day. Sadly, suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. The international theme for World Suicide Prevention Day 2021 until 2023 is ‘Creating hope through action’, which aims to empower people with the confidence to engage with the complexity of ‘hope’. The construction industry can be proud of the…
July 2021 Site Safety Report
Over the course of July, our consultants spent more than 850 hours on construction sites across the UK providing advice on a wide variety of health and safety issues. July 2021 Site Safety Report Two of the most common issues were Risk and COSHH assessments, where we were able to guide our customers to our…
Changes to Self-Isolation Guidance: Health and Safety Covid-19 Update
On the 16th August 2021, Government guidance regarding self-isolation of those identified as close contacts or household contacts of confirmed COVID-19 cases changed. From 16th August 2021… You are no longer required to self-isolate if you are identified as a close contact of a person with COVID-19 or live in the same household as someone with…
Bullying and Harassment
Is workplace bullying and harassment on the increase, or is it that confidence in raising issues, and the protection afforded under equalities laws, are more recognised? Our employment law department at THSP Risk Management are certainly seeing an increase in cases relating to this difficult topic. There is no clear definition of what constitutes bullying…
One in Five Businesses are Considering Redundancies When Furlough Ends
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ends on 30 September and so could thousands of jobs as economic uncertainty forced employers to consider redundancies. At the outset of the Scheme in April 2020, a different type of pressure exerted itself on the jobs market where employers, some may say, panicked by cutting their headcounts. A different…
Vaccine Refusal
Is it necessary for workers to have a COVID vaccine to be able to work? Many of our clients, and ourselves, have come up with contractual expectations to only send ‘double jabbed’ workers to their client’s workspaces, regardless of where this is. Is this lawful? If yes, then it must meet some human rights and…
Working in the Heat
The HSE has issued an e-Bulletin as temperatures are set to soar across Britain this week. At THSP Risk Management we work closely with our customers in the construction industry to ensure that their workers will be as safe as possible. Where possible work should be planned to reduce exposure to UV rays and bright sunlight, particularly…
Rules Replaced With Guidance: Health and Safety Covid-19 Update
The Prime Minister has confirmed that Step 4 of the Roadmap out of lockdown restrictions will proceed as planned on 19 July.