HEALTH & SAFETY

Standfirst: The Health and Safety industry has become the target of vilification and derision.

For the second year running, Health & Safety E-Learning provider Safety Media has been short-listed for the E-Learning Development Company of the Year award at the E-Learning Awards.

“Don’t let ‘dodgy’ ladders shatter lives”, that’s the message from Ladderstore.com for companies who don’t keep a careful eye on their ladders and risk the health and safety of their staff.

The British Safety Industry Federation (BSIF) is highlighting the major problem of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) as the most common occupational injury.

Casella CEL will be exhibiting three of its products at the Health & Safety Expo, 13-14 October 2010, at the REEBOK Stadium Bolton.

Wolf Safety Lamp Company’s new ATEX approved Wolflite XT Handlamp incorporates the latest LED technology, and delivers 200 Lumens output on full power, an increase of five times the light output from the previous Wolf H-251A Handlamp.

NEBOSH launches Certificate in the Management of Health and Well-being at Work

Well-managed organisations are being encouraged to find out if their health and safety is as good as they think it might be.

In Britain some 170,000 people suffer deafness, tinnitus or other ear conditions as a result of exposure to harmful levels of noise at work.

UK plastic extrusion company, A-Safe says its bollards are proving a success in the car parks of Bluewater - one of Britain's busiest shopping centres in Greenhithe, Kent, which is visited each year by over 27 million shoppers

Industrial safety specialist Fortress Interlocks has introduced an ATEX Certified, explosion protected safety switch key station. The CPS4STOPXP key station is designed to release keys, which can be used to control mechanical door locks that provide

Details of all the practical issues associated with the EN50191 standard for the installation and operation of electrical test equipment are covered in a newly reprinted booklet from electrical safety testing specialist Clare Instruments.

Problems caused by noisy testing plant at a Wirral-based engineering firm have been overcome thanks to an installation by local noise management specialists, Kimpton Acoustics.

Thirty five percent of employers are not meeting their statutory obligation to provide training and 39% of employees have not received any training in the past 12 months.

3M developed the 9300 series disposable particulate respirator ten years ago to help protect the respiratory health of people exposed to particulate hazards in the workplace such as dusts, mists and metal fume.

Asbestos has been identified as a major risk to health and over 5000 people a year die in the UK from exposure to its fibres.