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The three day IOSH Managing Safely program is designed to get managers up to speed on the practical actions they need to take to handle health and safety in their teams.
The course is for managers and supervisors within any sector and provides full step-by-step guidance, with a sharp business focus.
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To make an enquiry about this course, email training@redhills.co.uk or call: 01306 631820.
Redhills provides Institute of Health and Safety (IOSH) approved courses in managing and working safely; the NEBOSH General Certificate in occupational health and safety; working at heights, manual handling and fork lift driving; fire safety training for managers, marshals and employees; and water safety training; and COSHH management.
CARDINUS Risk Management has been awarded ISO 27001 accreditation for the provision of risk assessment and e-learning software, training, services and consultancy in connection with the safety risk management market.
Cardinus, which is based in the UK, provides risk assessment and e-learning software, training systems and consultancy services to more than two million users worldwide. Data management is at the core of many Cardinus services and it is the analysis and application of health and safety data that makes Cardinus solutions so effective.
It provides safety and risk management systems to some of the world’s largest companies as well as many public sector entities. These organisations demand and dictate best practice in the key areas of health and safety and data management and protection.
Andy Hawkes, CEO of Cardinus Risk Management, said, “We are delighted to have gained this accreditation as managing personal and corporate data is a core competency that many companies in our sector fail to understand. We wanted to become one of the world’s first safety organisations to hold this accreditation as evidence of our total commitment to information security.”
Implementing the ISO27001 standard ensures that an organisation formally specifies a management system intended to bring information security under explicit management control. It is recognised throughout the globe as best practice.
Barbara Snape, IT director at Cardinus, said, “This has been a major project with all parts of our systems, processes and procedures reviewed, revised and scrutinised to exacting standards. This is an absolute sign of our commitment to delivering products and services that meet the highest levels of security at all times.”
Cardinus Risk Management has been producing and supplying risk management services and e-learning courses since 1995. Its customers include many of the world’s leading organisations, a large number of small and medium-sized organisations and central government departments.
Azea are renowned within industry for rapidly reducing accidents by delivering innovative behavioural training solutions.
This also applies to improving employee’s ability to deliver accurate and concise briefings.
Engaged – Azea was commissioned by one of its large rail clients to try and improve their existing safety record by enhancing employees briefing skills.
The client wanted to improve their employee’s ability to plan and then deliver task critical information. They also desired an output of the audience receiving the information in the correct way, with no misinterpretations.
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In accordance with The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, there should be a provision of competent people who have been trained correctly to deal with an emergency situation involving fire. This training must be a mix of theory and practical.
This course is nationally accredited which assists you in ensuring that your company is adhering to current legislation. This also helps to protect you if you are in a position of responsibility in regards to ensuring that your employees receive the correct type of bespoke training, in line with current guidelines.
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Most people believe that if they are doing ‘anything’ to improve safety and it engages people’s behaviour then they must be implementing ‘Behavioural Safety’. Not always so! There are a number of defining features that separate Behavioural Safety from other methods of safety improvement initiatives.
Behavioural Safety should involve a systematic, improvement intervention; A unique feature of Behavioural Safety is the introduction of a planned schedule of events that combine to create an overall continuous improvement intervention: This planned schedule often begins with briefing sessions for all those work areas and departments that will be involved.
Under The Health and Safety (First-Aid) regulations 1981, this course has been classed ‘strongly recommended’ by the HSE.
The course’s purpose is to refresh candidate’s skills so that if an incident were to occur, they could deal with any injuries promptly and confidently and forms part of the three year recommended first aid training plan.
This course is nationally accredited which assists you in ensuring that your company is adhering to current legislation. This also helps to protect you if you are in a position of responsibility in regards to ensuring that your employees receive the correct type of bespoke training, in line with current guidelines.
There are so many positive ‘value-added’ results that are within easy grasp of companies who use an effective Behavioural Safety process.
A well designed and implemented Behavioural Safety process should lead to:
Improved levels of quantified safety behaviours: If the workforce has ‘bought-in’ to Behavioural Safety and are actively trying to improve their safety performance, logic again dictates that the levels of safe behaviour will increase. This improvement should also be visible at the workface. For example, people are following procedures, and people are visibly engaging in safe behaviours.
In accordance with The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, all employees, whether full time or part time, must have fire awareness training. In the order, it states that ideally this training should take place on the day that employee commences employment.
This course is nationally accredited which assists you in ensuring that your company is adhering to current legislation. This also helps to protect you if you are in a position of responsibility in regards to ensuring that your employees receive the correct type of bespoke training, in line with current guidelines.
We offer a range of courses designed to improve workplace safety culture and reduce workplace accidents including the Statutory Emergency First Aid at Work Course.
Azea is the market leader for providing behavioural safety training and accident reduction solutions to the construction, oil and gas, nuclear and utility industries.
Results include higher productivity, pride in the company, staff retention, and lower accident rates. Azea enables companies to improve productivity by creating an enthusiastic and positive culture of safety through the empowerment of employees. This empowerment leads to an effective safety culture being embedded in the DNA of the business
All of our courses are designed to engage the employees and reduce workplace accidents.
To find out more about the range or workplace safety culture and behavioural safety training programmes we offer, visit our website here. You can also email: info@azea.co.uk or call 01665 714 000.
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We have also launched our 2013 ‘Safety Bubble’ campaign. To find out more about the campaign, click here.
How do you get an ergonomist to see red? Say that ergonomics is all about chairs! Yet part of the Six Pack covered office setup (1992 DSE Regulations) and they led to better workstations for office employees. And as people realised the relevance of ergonomics in the office, greater recognition of its contribution in other workplaces and environments has followed.
On 1 January 1993, the Health & Safety (Display Screen Equipment) Regulations were implemented as part of wide-reaching package of health & safety regulations dubbed the Six Pack, which were applicable to the majority of workplaces and covered the design and use of equipment, systems and the way people worked.
As a result, over the past 20 years, increasing compliance has led to much better workplaces for all.
For office staff, one element of the Six Pack, the Display Screen Equipment Regulations brought about DSE-related training, assessments and improved workstation design and set-up. Other workers benefited through a reduction of the risks associated with manual handling or the improved provision of better personal protective equipment and clothing to protect them from hazards.
Ergonomists/human factors professionals use their expertise to help plan and design safer working environments, equipment and systems so that they are easy to use and meet users’ needs. The introduction of the Six Pack regulations supported the application of ergonomics in the workplace.
Now 20 years on from the legislation’s implementation, the Chief Executive of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors Dave O’Neill believes they have contributed to safer and healthier workplaces and promoted the value of applying ergonomics.