As temperatures in the UK soar this week, its important employers are aware of their responsibilities to help protect their workers particularly those working outdoors from symptoms of heat stress. The HSE suggest that the following controls are put in place by employers or managers for outdoor workers in hot environments: Reschedule work to cooler…
All businesses need to plan for health and safety and allocate resources to putting in place controls to the risks identified in their workplace as part of the risk assessment process. Many businesses do this part well, however when it comes to monitoring the effectiveness of the measures they put in place to control those…
How to reduce your companies Plastic use: It’s estimated that the UK uses 500 million tonnes of plastic every year with the business community being responsible for a large proportion of this figure. New legislation introduced in April this year around plastic packaging tax is driving a reduction in this number and affected businesses are…
This Thursday 16th June is #cleanairday. To help you understand more about air pollution, it’s causes and effects we’ve put together a free training lesson including some of the tips and ideas @cleanairdayuk have shared to help make a difference and links to useful resources for businesses to take action. #cleanairday Free lesson If your…
Brief Development and Implementation of an Integrated Management System to ISO 9001, ISO 45001 and ISO 14001 for this start-up with a mission to spearhead the response to Electric vehicle growth in the UK, by providing innovative, scalable electric vehicle charging infrastructure and software to all sectors for free. Overview EV Chargers were looking to…
Business leaders and employees can sometimes be daunted by their first ISO audit or a surveillance/recertification audit happening soon. Maybe you have new staff unfamiliar with the preparation process? To help, we’ve put together a quick training lesson to explain how to prepare for an audit and what to expect. Follow this button to view…
Almost daily reports of data breaches are published in our national press. Just this week US Health start- up myNurse is to shut down after a data breach exposed personal health records. In April 2022 IT governance UK reported 14.3 million records breached globally. This figure included UK entities ‘The Works’ being forced to close…
This earth day, we’ve been thinking about the small steps we can make in the workplace to make a change to our energy consumption and sustainability. We’ve prepared a quick lesson & quiz you can share with your colleagues and employees to help them be more mindful of their energy use to reduce emissions and…
