Equipment & Environm't

How your workplace and working in enclosed spaces has just the same potential for carbon monoxide poisoning as does your home. How risk assessments must be carried out and why defective, worn out and ...

The many considerations you need to take into account when considering a career change. Financial implications, family considerations and steps you should take to ensure whether or not a career ...

The questions you should ask before buying any new workplace equipment and the answers you should seek from the manufacturers. Putting safeguards in place to ensure careful operation of workplace ...

What EMFs actually are and how they can have an effect on workplace health and safety. What the European Parliament’s Directive says and how employers need to reduce or eliminate the level of ...

As with all other areas of health and safety in the workplace, a thorough risk assessment of potential fire hazards should be carried out prior to devising and implementing a fire safety strategy. ...

The role of the health and safety inspector. What they do and what powers and rights they have. Procedures that follow breaches of health and safety law and appealing against decisions. What ...

'Sick building syndrome' is an expression which was coined to define a situation where a place of work has been found to cause various ailments and illnesses characterised by headaches, respiratory ...

How employers recognise the need to have a talented and highly skilled workforce and the efforts many of them make to ensure that their workers have access to learning new skills and gaining further ...

Almost all of us will face some sort of dangerous substances at work or during our daily life and it's important that we understand how to deal with the risks. Although the idea of dangerous ...

The rules and regulations surrounding health and safety implications of using a VDU or computer at work. How to set up your work station and position yourself. Health problems that can arise from ...

What is Meant by Ergonomics? Ergonomics is an approach to promoting occupational health which has also has benefits in terms of employee satisfaction and efficiency. In designing work ...

Warning signs and safety instructions have become a part of everyday life in recent times, and no more so than in the workplace. A boom in the number of safety signs and notices has coincided ...