In today's fast-paced work environment, ensuring safety is paramount for both employees and employers. Workplace hazards can pose significant risks, leading to accidents, injuries, and even fatalities. Understanding the common hazards present in various work environments is essential for fostering a…
Blog posts : "manual handling"
5 challenges of being a manufacturer in 2018
The manufacturing industry faces many challenges year on year. It’s an important sector to both current and emerging markets.
These are the most commonly faced challenges to the industry in the UK in 2018.
- Manual handling and safety
Manufacturing can be a dangerous industry, and it’s…
Top Five Common Warehouse Safety Hazards & Ways to Prevent Them
Workplace safety standards continue to improve each year; however, today’s workforce, especially within a warehouse, still can be dangerous environments with many potential hazards and associated risks.
Warehouse safety goes hand in hand with productivity. Lost workforce hours, damaged stock a…
Health and safety in the supply chain
For many years now, it has been widely acknowledged that any one action within any part of the supply chain can have a knock on effect, positively or negatively, further down the line.
To give an example, imagine a supplier changing the weights of their products, to make them bigger in order to t…
Manual handling at work; when you probably shouldn't lift
At one time, what you could and couldn’t lift whilst operating in a workplace environment was down to what you could physically manage.
People love the phrase ‘can-do attitude’, but thankfully that doesn’t apply anymore when it comes to manual handling.
Whilst there are no legal limits…
The league table of construction accidents
Any documentation from the HSE always makes for interesting reading, particularly when it relates to the construction industry. This is a field which makes up just 5% of the British workforce, yet still contributes to 27% of fatal injuries to the whole country. In short, it’s dangerous – although th…
Llanelli construction firm fined over worker's injury
A Llanelli construction firm has been fined after a worker suffered serious injuries when he was hit by a concrete beam.
The employee, from Carmarthen, was working with a colleague for W A Bowler Ltd. on the installation of a beam and block floor at Hillside Care Home in the Uplands area of Swanse…
Battersea laundry firm fined for ignoring safety notices
A Battersea laundry firm showed scant regard for employee wellbeing and safety after ignoring instructions to make it easier and safer for workers to move heavy loads, London magistrates heard today.
Niva UK (Ltd), trading as Sunbeam Laundry, failed to act on two separate Improvement Notices serv…
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