Every workplace should have a Health and Safety Manager who is responsible for assisting the employer and organisation to look after the health, safety, and wellbeing of all the employees or workforce. It is also critically important to ensure that this important manager has the correct qualification, skills, experience, and competence to fill their position […]
5 Steps to executing an accurate risk evaluation in health and safety
What is risk evaluation? Risk evaluation in health and safety is most commonly referred to as conducting or performing a ‘Health and Safety Risk Assessment”, or sometimes also referred to as HIRA – Hazard Identification Risk Assessment. Risk evaluation or assessment is a process of determining the hazards and their accompanying risk, of an incident […]
HSE: Health Safety and Environment unpacked and simplified
What is Health Safety and Environment? HSE stands for Health, Safety, and Environment and can also be referred to SHEQ, where people include Quality, or OHS which includes Occupation meaning health and safety related to work, or also referred to just Health and Safety. These all fall under a similar banner, within the common category […]
Understanding occupational health: What it is and why it is important for your business?
This blog has been written to provide readers with a broad, better, and holistic understanding of Occupational Health within the workplace. What is occupational health? Definition of Occupational Health: “Occupational Health is the promotion and maintenance of the highest degree of physical, mental and social well-being of workers in all occupations, by preventing departures from […]
The Functions of a Health and Safety Representative
Who is a Health and Safety Representative? A Health and Safety Representative, also known as a SHE Rep, is a person who is appointed in the workplace to represent his/her fellow employees to ensure that all risks and hazards are identified and dealt with as far as reasonably practicable. The Health and Safety Representative consults [...]
Legal Liability Training: Everything you need to know
What is legal liability training? In law the word liable means to be responsible or answerable or in other words being legally obligated to perform or refrain from performing a task. Legal Liability includes both civil and criminal law and can arise from various areas of law. When we talk about preventing occupational injuries and [...]
The Importance of Efficient Health and Safety Management
Health and safety management is a critically important element of the overall management of any business or organisation. It is just as important as other management systems or segments such as production, operations, procurement, etc. Health and Safety (H&S) management must also be fully integrated into the whole organisation, or across the entire workplace. What […]
Level 2 First Aid: What to Expect
Level 2 First Aid takes an emergency response to the next level. Instead of simply responding to an emergency, employees will be able to identify, plan and act with skill and in keeping with emergency protocol required by law. Once First Aid level 1 has been completed, learners are eligible to complete First Aid [...]
5 Reasons Why A CPR Course Is Life Critical In The Workplace
Can you save a life? Health and safety training for employees is important, but a CPR course is critical. Saving a life is only one reason why you should introduce a CPR course in your workplace. Accidents happen at work, some of them fatal. Time is the most critical factor, between the time the accident [...]