Pest control
Put simply, pest management or control is the destruction or prevention of unwanted pests. Many differing techniques are used, but the basic principles are common to most situations. These involve environmental management to exclude pests from si...
Radiation
There are two types of radiation – ionising and non-ionising.Specific regulations in the UK require employers to protect employees from the adverse effects of ionising radiation, either from irradiation or from radioactive contamination. Non...
Risk assessment
The UK’s Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 (MHSWR) introduced the need for employers to make a suitable and sufficient assessment of health and safety risks to employees and other persons affected by work activities. T...
Safeguarding
Safeguarding is the term given to looking after the health, safety and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults. If an employee’s work involves contact with children or vulnerable adults, either occasionally or for long periods of time, t...
Security
Any security strategy will be driven by the business needs of an organisation and will therefore be an essential aspect of the business cycle, particularly insofar as budget and risk are concerned. It is important, therefore, to demonstrate that t...
Stress and wellbeing
Employers have a legal duty to assess the risks of work-related stress and take measures to control these risks, so everyone in a workplace should understand their role in reducing the risks and impact of stress. The industries that report the hig...