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HSE Passport, the company committed to helping agencies, umbrella companies, contractors and host companies achieve legal compliance to current Health & Safety legislation, is calling on recruitment agencies to review their approach towards health and safety training for temporary workers.
HSE Passport, the simple and cost effective health and safety compliance scheme (for contract and temporary workers) is advising recruitment agencies to get their temporary workers and freelancers ‘Health and Safety Compliant’, prior to releasing them into the workplace.
A simple health and safety passport for each temporary worker can prevent timely delays when arriving on site at a new project and also will present cost-saving benefits to both the client and agency.
Guy Schrecker, General Manager, HSE Passport said: “If an agency worker holds a recognised health and safety passport card , it presents many benefits: The agency can offer placements straightaway, the client does not have to hold health and safety induction sessions and the temporary worker can take the passport from project to project.”
Taking the first step to educate your employees on company specific health and safety policies and procedures.
Getting injured at work or becoming ill through work is not a topic we want to think about, however, the reality is that over 200 people a year lose their lives at work in Britain. Additionally, around 150,000 non-fatal injuries are reported each year, and an estimated 2 million people suffer from ill health caused or made worse by work.
Implementing health and safety measures doesn’t have to be expensive, time consuming or complicated. In fact, safer and more efficient working practices can often save money but, more importantly, they can help to save lives.
Adequate health and safety training forms part of many induction programme for new starters and addresses the kind of elements which cause the more common accidents and harm to people’s health. Health and Safety Induction training can identify what applies to your work activities, and tells you how you can get more help and information.
A manufacturing firm has been prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive for not creating a sufficient separation area between pedestrian workers and fork lift trucks at its site in Dorset.
On 9 March 2010 a worker at the company had both his legs and ankles broken when a fork lift truck reversed into him.
The company, Verplas Ltd., had failed to provide a safe zone of adequate size for pedestrians in the area in which the fork lift trucks were being operated. Health and Safety protocol dictates that significant measures be taken to ensure the safety of pedestrians and prevent the potential for accidents with fork lift trucks at the place of work.
In situations where employees are not warned of these kinds of dangers or are not provided with sufficient space and distance from the working area where the trucks operate, the risk level for these kind of accidents increases greatly. An effective risk assessment policy or driver safety programme could well have prevented the likelihood of the accident ever taking place.
An employee of Cemex was killed by an explosion at a cement plant in Rugby on 15 January 2008.
The explosion was of such force that the victim was blown through the side wall of the plant to where his body was discovered on the road 10 metres below.
The dead man had been trying to unblock a mixing machine when a sudden violent explosion caused by the build up of steam and dust from inside the machine propelled him through the wall of the building where he fell to the road below. An inquest determined that the explosion almost certainly would have killed the man instantly despite the 30 foot drop to the road.
HSE Passport is committed to helping agencies, umbrella companies, contractors and host companies achieve legal compliance to current Health & Safety legislation by supplying an
effective passport scheme that complies with the guidelines laid out in INDG381.
HSE Passport, the simple and cost effective health and safety compliance scheme (for contract and temporary workers) today launches a brand new health and safety industry blog. It can be found at:
The blog aims to inform recruitment agencies, agency workers, temporary workers, contractors, freelancers and host companies of their duty under current health & safety legislation, whilst operating any temporary contract or position.
Achieving legal compliance is at the forefront of most business agendas, this new industry blog will set to educate and engage with all Health, Safety & Environmental professionals and promotes their HSE Passport for contractors and temporary workers.
A young employee had to have his left arm amputated after it was trapped in a piece of workplace machinery at Natural World Products Ltd. in Co. Armagh, Northern Ireland.
While conducting his daily check on 29 June 2010 the employee had noticed a piece of wood had been caught under the conveyor of the screening machine and suffered severe injuries to his arm when he attempted to remove it.
The machine was unguarded and a HSENI investigation has determined that the original guard had been tampered with and reduced in size in order to allow maintenance staff access to internal machine parts while it was running.
The bookmakers which was raided by an armed gang, was fined £10,000 for failing to increase security prior to the attack, despite being told to do so.
Two female workers were opening William Hill, in Fleetwoods Lane, Netherton, on the morning of April 17 last year when a man armed with a knife burst in and ordered the terrified staff to hand over cash. One of the workers suffered a whiplash injury after being dragged to the floor during the attack.
The bookmakers had been visited by Sefton Council health and safety officers months before the raid, who had reported a number of safety concerns. Issues with poor outside lighting, CCTV and an insecure alley running between the bookmakers and a pub next door.
A self-employed roofing contractor has been given a suspended prison sentence after an incident in which his friend was killed whilst trying to help him replace the flat roof of a domestic garage.
The friend was accompanying Steve Mason, who had been contracted to replace a flat roof for a double garage at a house in Well Lane, Stock, near Chelmsford, on 24 June 2009. The victim suffered a stroke and fell through a gap in the rafters on to the garage floor, suffering multiple injuries. He died in hospital just over three weeks later, on 17 July 2009.
Steve Mason, who lives in the same road as the victim in Tiptree, received an eight month prison sentence, suspended for twelve months and was ordered to pay £500 costs at Chelmsford Crown Court after admitting breaching section 3 (2) of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
After the hearing, HSE Inspector Lesley Balkham said:
“This sends out a powerful message to roofing contractors. Steve Mason failed to properly consider the risks of the job and act to limit the chances of injury or even death. He should have put guard-rails around the edge of the roof and taken measures to prevent anyone falling through the roof, but he chose not to.
“ No matter what size the business, everyone in the construction industry should be very familiar with the risks of working at height and appreciate the importance of ensuring that the right precautions are put in place, however small the job. Falls from height remain one of the biggest causes of workplace deaths in the UK.”
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About EssentialSkillz
EssentialSkillz is a global supplier of Safety E-Learning and Risk Assessment Training Courses. Our Computer Health and Safety Software Solutions are designed to help organisations achieve compliance with DSE regulations.
Workplace Ergonomics is of paramount importance to our clients and our extensive range of courses caters for all aspects associated with Employee Risk Assessment.
For Workstation Assessment e-learning including DSE training and DSE risk assessment software, visit our website www.essentialskillz.com or subscribe to our blog by RSS or subscribe to Essential Skillz by Email.