New PPE Safety Product website launched

RCS is now a personal protective equipment (PPE) product supplier in the UK providing First Aid, Health, Safety and Fire related products.RCS has just launched a brand new website offering First Aid, Health, Safety and Fire related products.Our personal protective safety equipment products are perfectly suited for both domestic and industrial use and are ideal [...]

Physiotherapists demand action to cut RSI

Government and employers must do more to reverse a sharp increase in rates of repetitive strain injury (RSI) among workers. This is the message from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), as the latest HSE figures show a rise in both the number of new cases, as well as the overall number of people affected.
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Scotsman: Nerves of steel

Kevin Allars, HSE’s Head of Chemical Industries Division, responds to the article in the Scotsman: “Nerves of steel to build here”
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HSC Chair’s call for effective leadership in the downstream oil industry

Chairing an International Safety Conference the Chair of the (HSC) Judith Hackitt told the UK Petroleum Industry Association , “I cannot emphasise enough how industry leaders must play a pivotal role in setting strong and visible process safety controls throughout their organisations. Safety not only ensures that people go home safely at the end of the day, but [...]

Blast firm must improve fire safety

The firm which triggered mayhem when there was a major explosion at its Preston site has been forced to improve fire safety.
Waste management firm Veolia Environmental Services has been served with three enforcement notices by fire officials in Lancashire following the incident at its base on the Red Scar Industrial Estate last July.

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Into the front seat

It is an area that health and safety professionals may have left to fleet managers in the past, but the changing world of work means that occupational road risk is becoming an issue that can no longer be ignored. Richard Byrne explains.
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Fairytale existence

When the national media carry negative reports about health and safety, or the general public sound off about it, we can put it down to ignorance of the subject on their part. But when that negativity is coming from those actually responsible for health and safety, it’s far more of a concern, as Gary Fallaize [...]

School kitchens taking the heat

SCHOOL kitchens across the North East have failed basic hygiene and health and safety rules, a Journal investigation has shown.
Menus contained misleading information describing food as organic or homemade when it wasn’t and grubby floors and cupboards were reported in a number of premises.
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Bosses alerted to new law on fatal accidents

 A LEADING UK training consultancy has announced a series of nationwide training courses on the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.
The Warwickshire-based Occupational Safety Training and Advisory Services (OSTAS) will hold seminars including one at Coventry’s Ricoh Arena Coventry on March 11.
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Warning on overloading floors following collapse

Spinal fractures, broken shoulders, and fractured ribs were among the serious injuries sustained by four construction workers when the floor they were working on collapsed under the weight of a load of concrete blocks.
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