Two men have been jailed for a total of 18 months for taking health and safety tests on behalf of other construction workers to gain skills cards. The case is being highlighted by CITB-ConstructionSkills who warned any other fraudsters could expect to feel the full force of the law. Gurpreet Singh and Parampreet Singh were ...

Organisations worldwide recognize the need to control and improve health and safety performance, and do so with occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS). However before 1999 there was a proliferation of national standards and proprietary certification schemes to choose from. This caused confusion and fragmentation in the market; undermined the credibility of each individual ...

Using the same approach as the environmental standard ISO 14001, the aim of the OHSAS 18001 health and safety management specification is to provide a framework for providing a safe and healthy working environment.  Additionally, the standard provides guidelines on how to integrate health and safety policies into your overall management system. Key requirements of the ...

Nationwide – free quality advice and information; helping you run a successful business. Business Advice Open Days are the largest cross government business support road-shows of their kind, dedicated to providing free information and support to your business. What support is available? full team of experts at each event advice and support – health and safety, starting a new ...

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The Prime Minister has pledged to slay the ‘health and safety monster’ that is ‘strangling’ business. David Cameron yesterday unveiled plans to cut red tape and prevent ambulance-chasing lawyers from cashing in on personal injury claims. And he launched an attack on the ‘chancers’ who try to ‘leech’ off companies by seeking compensation for minor ...

The 91-year-old was banned from  sitting in the cockpit of a museum’s Spitfire… because officials feared it was too risky. He was stunned to be told the fighter had been given a facelift with paint containing tiny traces of radioactive radium and had no ‘proper seat’. Mr Carter said: ‘You couldn’t make it up. I ...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a fresh warning about workplace safety following a rise in the number people who suffered a major injury while at work in Pembrokeshire last year. According to the latest statistics, there were 60 major injuries in the county during 2010/11 compared with 55 in 2009/10. Another 125 ...