What Is COSHH, and What Does It Actually Require?
COSHH covers far more than chemicals - dusts, fumes, biological agents, and substances your own work creates. What it does not cover,…
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Workplace Risk Assessment: The Five Steps, and How Much to Write Down
A legal duty under MHSWR 1999. The five steps, why you will see three in some places, how much you actually have…
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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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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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Winter in the Workplace: What to Plan For
Winter makes existing hazards worse all at once. Temperature law, slips, outdoor workers, driving and the seasonal staff who get the shortest…
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Health and Safety for Students: What Actually Matters
Written for parents to forward and students to skim: fire safety in shared houses, carbon monoxide, cooking without poisoning your housemates, and…
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Workplace Accidents at Christmas: What Actually Goes Wrong
Nothing new goes wrong at Christmas — the usual hazards just meet peak workload, temporary staff and bad weather in the same…
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