Fire safety is a vital component of workplace safety. As a fire safety awareness course provider, we’re often asked questions on the procedures and knowledge involved in preventing and dealing

Direct Safety Solutions, a health and safety consultant and training provider, is pleased to announce that the company has passed its ISO 9001 Audit on the 22nd January with zero non-conformances.  ISO

A facilities management contractor has been fined after multiple safety failings at a laboratory site for the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge. Hove Crown Court heard how,

A builders’ merchant that failed to manage workplace transport at its warehouse in Horsforth, Leeds, has been fined after a worker was killed by a reversing forklift truck. Woodlands Homecare

A Manchester-based businessman has been prosecuted after failing to check whether asbestos was present in a building he owned before starting major refurbishment works. Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard how Mr

New WEL’s for 31 substances have been introduced from 21st August 2018.  You can find a list of the substances and the new limits in the updated HSE publication EH40/2005 Workplace Exposure

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has been made aware that two UK laboratory supply companies have supplied schools and potentially other users with gauze mats which contain asbestos. The metal

Nordam Europe Limited have been fined after workers were exposed to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Cardiff Crown Court heard how around 100 employees of the company, which maintains and

Supermarket giant Tesco has been hit with a £160,000 fine for an injury inflicted by a falling roll cage. The fine is eight times the penalty levied on the company

A housebuilder that was served 16 enforcement notices over a four-year period has been fined for a catalogue of safety failings uncovered at two construction sites. Manchester and Salford Magistrates’