Avoiding Accidents

How the Health and Safety Executive Guidance note GS6 will tell you all there is to know about working beneath overhead power lines. Who you must...

Falling from a vehicle is one of the most common causes of workplace injuries. They can occur for a whole host of reasons, many of which could be...

How companies need to comply with all of the relevant legislation when it comes to fire safety and prevention. How companies need to have proper fire...

There are reputed to be over 8,000 reported accidents involving the use of forklift trucks in the UK each year and some of these result in...

Every year, over 2 million people suffer an accident at work. What is perhaps surprising is that a large percentage of accidents relate to office...

Accidents happen in every walk of life and often, are down to lack of concentration or simple carelessness but accidents in the workplace can...

RSI is an extremely painful condition which can affect anyone who repeats the same movements on a regular basis, such as clicking a computer mouse....

Almost a third of accidents at work involve manual handling, which generally means lifting, pushing or physically moving a load. It is estimated...

Mechanical lifting equipment is used in many different industries. Fork lift trucks, lifting trolleys, mobile and fixed cranes, and all the...

Every year, nearly 11,000 people suffer injury as a result of a slip or trip at work. Over the last ten years, the number of slip-related accidents...

People working in different types of job obviously face a range of different hazards. For example, an office worker is much less at risk from...

Personal protective equipment is an essential aspect of protecting employees from injury. Personal protective equipment, or PPE, covers a wide...

How the work at height regulations are designed to protect those who work at height and could suffer from the risk of injury or far worse as the...