Health & Safety: Safeguarding Your Business & Employees
SafetyNow ensures businesses understand and comply with legislation, to safeguard their employees, customers and the reputation of their company.
SafetyNow ensures businesses understand and comply with legislation, to safeguard their employees, customers and the reputation of their company.
As a business owner, it is essential to understand and adhere to your legal obligations, but just why is health and safety so important?
As a manager / owner of a care home you have the weighty responsibility of ensuring not only that all your residents are cared for to the highest possible standards, but also that both them, and your employees, are residing or working in a safe environment.
The Health and Safety Executive prosecutes for various offences from lack of risk assessments to fatalities. Here are a few recent ones.
On October 1st 2015 around 1.7m workers will have no safety duties, according to the regulator. This move stems from a proposal in the 2011 Löfstedt review on safety statutes.
Our infographic highlights 5 top tips to show you how to improve health and safety in your workplace.
As a provider of health and safety training and consultancy, we are keen to show our support for Health & Safety Week taking place between 20-24 June 2016.
Following a long battle between workers and constructions firms over ‘blacklisting’, a court case has ended in victory for 256 workers who are now set to receive more than £10m in compensation. But have lessons been learnt?
A recent article in SHP Online asks the question of what impact the forthcoming EU referendum would have, if any, on health and safety legislation.
On 1 February this year, the new sentencing guidelines for health and safety offences came into force which directed courts to take into consideration the turnover of a company when considering the level of fine to be levied.
“Every 15 seconds, a worker dies from a work-related accident or disease, and 153 people experience a work-related injury. These represent an enormous burden for organisations and society as a whole, costing over 2.3 million deaths a year, not to mention the more than 300 million non-fatal accidents*.”
The SafetyNow team are currently in discussions with a Qatari company to assist them in setting up health and safety training.