The Myth Busters Challenge Panel was set-up by the The Health and Safety Executive to investigate decisions or advice given in the name of health and safety which could be wrong. Anyone can contact ...

Bah Humbug! Each year we hear of companies banning their workers from putting up Christmas decorations in their offices for ‘health and safety’ reasons, or requiring the work to be done by a ...

Food poisoning (also known as foodborne illness or foodborne disease) is any illness that results from eating contaminated food. Below is a guide to the 17 most common types of food poisoning. This ...

The latest release of PYRAMID™ improves the the health and safety risk assessments with the ability to upload photos and use the iText features as found on the fire risk assessment and auditing pages.

Supermarket Tesco was recently fined £48,000 for health and safety breaches after a successful prosecution by Bracknell Forest Council. The Council’s environmental health team prosecuted the company ...

This is the final post in our series of articles focusing on reports available and generated by the PYRAMID™ Risk Management System. This article focuses on incident reports which include accident, ...

This post is part of the “Focus on Health and Safety Audit Questions” series. A series which focuses on questions asked by our health and safety consultants when conducting a health and safety audit.

If you have found this article there’s a good chance that you are a manager probably within a UK based business operating internationally, that either has responsibility for or has just been given ...

A list of expensive fines given to companies who have been in breach of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. Gurpartap Singh Bhullar is a landlord from Slough, Berkshire. Bhullar appeared ...

Are Safety audits or compliance audits the bane of your life? Do you spend hours writing up audit reports? Or do you dread receiving yours? Do you struggle with using Microsoft Word or Excel to ...

We recently held a Emergency First Aid at Work Open Course at our regional training centre in Sittingbourne, Kent and would like to share some photos from the day (a sliding gallery is available at ...

In my experience as an RSPP, I am often contacted a few weeks before an opening to set the dates immediately following to conduct inspections. The inspections aim to verify arrangements and draft the ...