Health & Safety

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Health and Safety Environment Course and Test meets the health and safety requirements for all Craft and Operative SKILLcards and is designed for those within the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration occupations.  Read what Steven Rawding, HSEQ and ...

The Head of the UK’s leading health, safety and wellbeing organisation, British Safety Council, is calling on MPs to “oppose” attempts by the UK Government to remove thousands of regulations which protect people at work and as consumers, when the ...

The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) Health and Safety Environment Course and Test meets the health and safety requirements for all Craft and Operative SKILLcards and is designed for those within the heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigeration occupations.  Read what Steven Rawding, HSEQ and ...

Stress, depression, and anxiety make up around half of cases of work-related illness, according to the annual Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries. The figures from Great Britain’s workplace regulator show there were ...

Richard Tibenham, Building Performance Specialist at IES on keeping workplaces safe and productive in extreme weather It has recently become clear that the UK is somewhat unequipped for maintaining ideal working conditions under extreme hot weather events. There is no ...

The SHP Awards are an exciting annual opportunity to celebrate the achievements of the brightest and most passionate health & safety professionals – and an extremely powerful platform for recognising diversity of success. To give you enough time to enter ...

Noise-induced hearing loss is one of the world’s most commonly reported physical diseases – particularly in the workplace. It’s an accumulated ailment that increases at every time of over-exposure to noise. The bad news is that hearing loss can be ...

For the second second consecutive year, Salisbury Group has secured a Gold Award from RoSPA – the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. In a rigorous process, the facilities management and engineering maintenance specialist was awarded RoSPA’s highest accolade ...

First aiders play an important role in providing assistance to casualties, but it’s crucial that their skills are maintained beyond their initial qualification, says Kristin Guzder, Health and Safety Learning Designer at High Speed Training  Under the Health and Safety ...

According to government stats, there are around 3.1 million people working in construction, who are the most at risk during a heatwave due to working outdoors and at height. With temperatures rising again this summer in certain parts of the ...