Five Health and Safety Resolutions Worth Keeping
Five health and safety jobs that take under an hour each — starting with the walkways, because slips and trips are 30%…
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Preventing Slips and Trips in Wet and Icy Weather
Grit before the frost, not after. The controls that actually reduce winter slips — and what the law does and does not…
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Six Dangerous First Aid Myths
Six pieces of first aid folklore that are still doing the rounds, corrected against current NHS guidance — including the burns cooling…
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The Office Fridge: Temperature, Storage and Who Is Responsible
Nobody owns the office fridge, which is the problem. The right temperature, how to store things, and a policy that takes twenty…
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Spare Adrenaline Auto-Injectors in Schools
Schools in England may hold spare AAIs, but it is not compulsory and there are conditions. Who the spare can be used…
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Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke at Work
Heat exhaustion and heatstroke are not the same thing, and the difference decides what you do. The signs, the cooling steps, and…
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BBQ Safety: Carbon Monoxide, Cooking and Cross-Contamination
Undercooked meat and carbon monoxide cause most barbecue casualties. The cooking temperatures, the raw-and-cooked rule, and why a cooling barbecue must never…
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What Does an Accredited Qualification Actually Mean?
Ofqual, awarding organisations and training centres are three different things. How to tell whether your certificate is a regulated qualification — and…
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Which First Aid Course Do You Need?
A plain map of the options — EFAW, FAW, requalification, paediatric and mental health first aid — with the one sentence that…
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How to Choose a First Aid Training Provider
HSE stopped approving providers in 2013, so the due diligence is yours. Eight questions to ask before you book — and the…
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