Last year, the following message was put out by the Health & Safety Executive on First Aid Certificates: First aid providers have now resumed first aid training and assessment. In some cases, there remains a backlog and limited availability for these courses. ...
Doing this job though, you’re never really ‘off duty’ in the way most people are from their jobs. I’ve stopped at road traffic accidents a number of times. One I stopped at was very serious. One of the passengers in the vehicle died at the scene – no one could’ve...
In the events side of our business, we always say that the perfect day is a day when nothing happens. That’s not how it is in most jobs, I realise. But not every event we attend turns out to be that perfect day; that’s why we’re there. Even on a quiet day – a...
Last year, during the first Covid lockdown, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE – the governing body for workplace health and safety) suspended the requirement for people to renew their safety certificates. All things being good, as we get slowly back to something...
(Or perhaps buying a business or opening a new branch.) Firstly, write a health and safety policy. Then review it. This will flag the risk assessments that need doing. Naturally then, the next stage is to complete those risk assessments. Where are the potential...
Under the first full lockdown training companies had to close, however under lockdown #2 training companies have been allowed to stay open. We need to convince clients that we operate safely. One of the issues we’ve faced with the pandemic is people feeling confident...
