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With the dark nights upon us, we must confess The Apprentice is our guilty pleasure, as we get snuggled up on the sofa with a nice hot cuppa. Amongst all the frantic tasks, drama and tension of ...

Stop!! Do you know your legal obligations?

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Offshore oil and gas is often thought of as being one of the most dangerous and high risk areas to work in. Well, is this true? Let's have a look at the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) annual ...

Offshore, Health, Safety and what’s going on…

Energy, oil and gas / get knowledge / health and safety

CDM

With just under 50 days until the CDM Regulations 2015 potentially come into force and the CDM Regulations 2007 revoked, do you know what needs to happen between then and now? If a project ...

CDM 2015 simplified.

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I have been sitting staring at my computer screen for about 30 minutes trying to consider how to write about the next H&S topics and even I am struggling with how to put this down in a #Fun ...

Substance Abuse, Good Hands & Weights aka COSHH, Manual Handling & Equipment.

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Chessington World of Adventures Operations Ltd was fined £150,000 and ordered to pay £21,614 in costs after pleading guilty to breaching the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974. The charges ...

Chessington fined £150k after child suffers fractured skull.

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Knowing that you have a health and safety inspection of any kind is enough to work most people into a bit of a panic! There’s just something about the thought of a perceptive man or woman ...

Time for an Inspection?

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When people set out on the road to business it is often like setting out in a relationship with a love interest… It is all smiles, dreams, what if’s and would/ could be’s and everything ...

Love, Life or Business … it’s all personal.

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Of all the challenges presented by transport and logistics perhaps the largest comes with an abnormal load, as the regulations here are complex. Known as an ‘Abnormal Indivisible Load’, it ...

Abnormal Loads – FACTS magazine legal column

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An Ayrshire waste recycling firm has been fined £118,000 on 6 October 2014 for serious safety failings after an agency worker severed his left arm at the shoulder while clearing a conveyor belt ...

Lack of guarding leads to serious consequences.

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It’s work…honest!

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Everyone loves a quickie – so here’s one… We all know that lawyers are not very well liked. I’ve no idea why, I’m delightful. Let’s get the lawyer jokes out the way – How many ...

Love thy lawyer

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Since 23 June 2016 when the British people voted to leave the European Union the conversations and topics have surrounded the momentous change to Britain’s political and economic landscape. The ...

#getbrexitsavvy

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