Apprentices and Redundancy
An apprenticeship contract cannot be terminated because of redundancy unless the employer’s business closes or fundamentally changes its character.
£6.9m construction tax fraud
Following on from a two year investigation HMRC has uncovered a £6.9 million tax fraud centred on the construction industry.
Benefits of Health and Safety Compliance
Taking a positive approach to your health and safety will have a positive effect across your business!
Construction safety fines increased
Since the new sentencing guidelines were introduced in February 2016 construction companies have been fined in excess of £8 million for safety offences.
Behaviour Based Safety
Behavioural Based Safety (BBS) is a process that creates a safety partnership between management and employees or contractors.
Man killed by falling boxes
A Plymouth company has been fined £500,000 after an employee suffered fatal injuries when a stack of boxes of frozen fish fell on him.
What does the Brexit mean for health and safety?
On triggering Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, Britain and the EU will begin upon a two-year period of negotiation to determine the terms under which we will deal with the rest of mainland Europe
Practice Safe
“Surgery without audit is like playing cricket without keeping the score.” Firstly I should apologise for misappropriating Hugh Brendan Devlin’s quote but the purpose of the Care Quality Comission (CQC) audit scheme is to establish a national standard for health care providers and should reassure patients as well as those working in the industry. The…
Online Fire Risk Assessments
12 months ago we set ourselves a challenge to find a way that our fire risk assessment could meet the requirements of the RRO, the expectations of the local fire brigades and to help our customers to better manage their fire risks. This has resulted in our new online fire risk assessment which not only…
Lend me your ears…
A loss of any form of sensory input is a life changing event. Consider our ability to perceive sound; the accumulative destruction of hearing over time can and will be devastating to the individual concerned. Whilst hearing sensitivity does decrease with age, the risk of accelerated loss can be worsened by exposure to excessive noise…