Making sure your employees are health and safety conscious is vital to your business. Proper health and safety training in the work environment helps both employees and employers stay safe while reducing the chance of work related injury or illness. When over one million people are injured in the workplace each year, it is vital that health and safety precautions are strictly adhered to and fully understood by all parties involved, in order to prevent any tragic outcome. On top of this, it is an employer’s legal responsibility to ensure the ... Continue reading

Britain’s biggest climate change campaign, Climate Week, takes place next week, aiming to inspire a new wave of action to create a sustainable future. Running from 3-9 March, Climate Week, which showcases practical solutions from every sector of society, will include events run by schools, businesses, charities, councils and many others. Since the inception of Climate Week in 2011, thousands of people have run events during the week, showing exactly what can be achieved, sharing ideas and encouraging thousands more to act during the rest of... Continue reading

Whatever your trade or profession, if you carry out tasks that involve working with your hands, it is more than likely that you will wear work gloves at some point during your duties. So depending on your job, you may need to replace your gloves regularly - but how do you really know when is the right time to do so? Soiling Obviously there are lots of different trades in which clothes and protective wear can become heavily soiled. Anyone who works in a kitchen environment will get more than their fair share of spills and stains a... Continue reading

No matter what work environment you find yourself in, health and safety should be at the forefront of everything that goes on, and regulations need to become more and more engrained into the working life of both employer and employee. Health and safety regulations are extremely wide-ranging and can be subject to changes and amendments from time to time, but one thing that remains constant is the need to ensure that construction workers are protected with adequate equipment, and in particular, head protection. It is important that employers ar... Continue reading

The increased need for businesses to downsize their workforce in the last five years has meant that employers have found it easier to take a more in-direct and less humane approach to aid their own discomfort when dealing with redundancies.  In my view, this is the worst attitude to have. It is an employer’s duty to ensure that redundancies are handled in a personal and supportive way. Shockingly I am seeing time and time again that employers have forgotten how to handle redundancy in a respectful way to the employee. All too often there ar... Continue reading